Is Haiti a Capitalist or Communist state?
Creating a stable Democracy in a volatile part of the World was America’s ENDURING gift to the People of Haiti: “By 1930, President Herbert Hoover had become concerned about the effects of the occupation, particularly after a December 1929 incident in Les Cayes. Hoover appointed two commissions to study the situation. A former governor general of the Philippines, William Cameron Forbes, headed the more prominent of the two. The Forbes Commission praised the material improvements that the U.S. administration had wrought, but it criticized the exclusion of Haitians from positions of real authority in the government and the constabulary, which had come to be known as the Garde d’Haïti. In more general terms, the commission further asserted that “the social forces that created [instability] still remain — poverty, ignorance, and the lack of a tradition or desire for orderly free government.” The Hoover administration did not fully implement the recommendations of the Forbes Commission; but
