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1922-Dec.

1922-Dec.: The Haitian government passes a law providing for the long-term leasing of land to foreign companies for agricultural and industrial development.

1922-Dec.: The Haitian government passes a law providing for the long-term leasing of land to foreign companies for agricultural and industrial development. Critics like François Dalencour attacked this measure as the “legalized assassination” of the Haitian rural peasantry.

Source  ·  p. 150 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 150