| The Haitian military is closely linked to the U.S.military. The high command was trained by the United States military. The CIA has been closely linked with Haitian intelligence, which it helped to set up, including the Drug Enforcement Agency, which is also linked with high Haitian officials. The Haitian elite, the small and super-wealthy sector, is very tightly integrated with the U.S. aid system; it sought during the eighties to use its resources to turn Haiti into an offshore assembly plant using fourteen-cent-an-hour labor, from which wealthy Haitian businessmen prospered enormously. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
