1941: (SHADA — the Société Haïtiano-Américaine de Développement Agricole — In 1941 Lescot Agreeing to the Agricultural Development Program with the United St…

1941: (SHADA — the Société Haïtiano-Américaine de Développement Agricole — In 1941 Lescot Agreeing to the Agricultural Development Program with the United States Called SHADA Inserting Haiti as the Solution to the United States’ Rubber Supply Shortage, Lescot Agreeing to a Partnership That Included the Importation and Cultivation of Hévéa Rubber Trees from the Philippines to Haiti — Using the Labor and Land of the Haitian Peasant Class SHADA Also Including the Planting of Cryptostegia Vines and the Extraction of Lumber in Southeast Haiti): In 1941, Lescot agreed to the agricultural development program with the United States called Société Haïtiano-Américaine de Développement Agricole (SHADA). Inserting Haiti as the solution to the United States’ rubber supply shortage due to Axis powers blocking trade from the Philippines, Lescot agreed to a partnership that included the importation and cultivation of hévéa (rubber) trees from the Philippines to Haiti. Using the labor and land of the Haitian peasant class, SHADA also included the planting of cryptostegia vines and the extraction of lumber in southeast Haiti — the program was a wartime echo of the occupation itself: American capital directing Haitian land and labor toward American needs, with a Haitian president serving as the intermediary.