Also known as: HASCO, Haitian-American Sugar Company
Last updated: April 23, 2026
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History treats HASCO as part of the long assault on the counter-plantation world: a corporate form through which foreign capital and state power pressed on land and labor. Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment adds the diplomatic and commercial dimension, especially where occupation policy, foreign investors, and later political regimes intersected.
His alignment with foreign corporate interests — including HASCO (Haitian American Sugar Company) — exemplifies the broader pattern of his regime's ties to U.S. capital.
HASCO's entry into Haiti was enabled by the 1918 constitutional revision allowing foreign land ownership, which Dartiguenave's government endorsed
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