MILITARY AID OR KILLER DEAL: U.S. WEAPONS TRADE AND MILITARY TRAINING IN THE CARIBBEAN, 1790 - 2001 Guest Speaker: Dr. Humberto Garcia Muñiz

U.S. CREATED THE ARMIES OF CUBA, HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

This military aid program which includes this here really started in the 50´s out of the Cold War. It is aimed towards the Soviet Union. So the Caribbean and Latin America itself doesn´t get a big part of it. In reality, it gets less than 5%. Most of the program is directed towards Europe. You have U.S. military assistance very early. I mentioned Haiti, 1790. You have also the military occupation of the Dominican Republic and Haitia in the 20th Century. The interventions in Nicaragua, whatever -- I´m not talking about that. Although you can imagine that if they administered Haiti for 20 years and the Dominican Republic for 16 years, they spent a lot of money in military supplies and training because when they left, they left the armies formed. The armies of Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic were created by the U.S. So they were always linked to the U.S. So what I am going to talk about are armies that are already linked to the U.S. military system. The term I use is "conexion subordinada."

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