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WE'VE DONE IT TO OURSELVES
ON this date in 1991 - Trade sanctions were imposed on Haiti by the U.S. to pressure the new leaders to restore the ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.
US Senators Bun Man and Mr. Purple supported the sanctions, although both had private reservations about its' effect, but they were told Aristide was the kind of dictator America could live with, so they went along to get along.
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This was not one of the Boyz' finest hours.
America - Supporting world democracy thru successive approximations, one failed dictatorship at a time...
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