Impérialisme financier
Haitian Kreyòl name: Enperyalis finansye
Also known as: Financial imperialism
Last updated: April 23, 2026
Plummer's 1902–1915 study shows how foreign banks, creditor interests, and diplomatic pressure narrowed Haitian political options before the Marines landed. The point is that occupation followed a financial encirclement rather than replacing it.
His dispatches document the foreign banking interests at work in Haiti before the occupation; his removal cleared the way for a policy more aligned with those interests.
Embodied the bank-state nexus of financial imperialism: shaped State Department perception of Haitian fiscal crisis as a pretext for intervention and managed U.S. banking interests that effectively controlled Haitian public finances.
Plummer situates his fall inside a multinational struggle over debt, banking, customs control, and sovereignty — the financial imperialism that made his presidency unstable long before the July crisis.
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