This is just a small episode in a much larger history. Just putting it here so I can pull it for something else. On U.S. moves to undermine Aristide following his election, see for example, Special Delegation of the National Labor Committee Education Fund in Support of Worker and Human Rights in Central America, Haiti After the Coup: Sweatshop or Real Development?, New York, April 1993. An excerpt (pp. 22, 25, 27):
