Clinton’s ‘Sorry’ Didn’t Fix Shit: How US Trade Policy Starved Haiti for Corporate Profit
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton forced Haiti to slash rice tariffs from 50% to 3%—flooding the market with cheap, subsidized US rice that put 30,000 Haitian farmers out of business. Clinton later admitted it was a "devil’s bargain" that "failed everywhere but the US rice lobby’s bank accounts." But his apology changed nothing: Haiti’s tariffs are still the lowest in the Caribbean, and the country now imports 80% of its rice from the same US corporations that killed its self-sufficiency.
The kicker? Clinton’s own foundation later partnered with Riceland Foods—one of the companies that profited from the crisis. Moral of the story: Neoliberalism says "sorry" while picking your pocket.
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