Mr.Big Meat McGee
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How the Clinton's Destroyed Haiti's Rice Industry
http://haitiadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Final-Letter.pdf
"The United States has a long history of exporting highly subsidized agricultural products to Haiti to the detriment of the Haitian agricultural economy. The USDA’s peanut plan could have a similarly devastating effect on Haiti’s peanut market as rice in the mid-1990s. When the U.S. pressed Haiti to lower its tariffs on rice, the Haitian market was flooded with rice mostly from the U.S. and the price of Haitian rice plummeted.The consequences were so dire former President Bill Clinton famously apologized, saying, “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but...it was a mistake...I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti...because of what I did.”
http://haitiadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Final-Letter.pdf
"The United States has a long history of exporting highly subsidized agricultural products to Haiti to the detriment of the Haitian agricultural economy. The USDA’s peanut plan could have a similarly devastating effect on Haiti’s peanut market as rice in the mid-1990s. When the U.S. pressed Haiti to lower its tariffs on rice, the Haitian market was flooded with rice mostly from the U.S. and the price of Haitian rice plummeted.The consequences were so dire former President Bill Clinton famously apologized, saying, “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but...it was a mistake...I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti...because of what I did.”