Far from an instrument of Haiti's salvation, its central bank was, from its very inception, an instrument of French financiers and a way to keep a suffocating grip on a former colony into the next century
A branch of Crédit Industriel et Commercial in Dijon, France, Feb. 11, 2022. At a time when CIC was helping finance the Eiffel Tower as a monument to French liberty, it was choking Haiti’s economy, taking much of the young nation’s income back to Paris. Today it is a $355 billion subsidiary of one of Europe’s largest financial conglomerates. Image: Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times
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