ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the relevant details of the recent embargo and summarizes the embargoes against Duvalierism. It examines the existing literature on the distributive effects of international embargoes on the targeted country's poor and combines the distributive literature with the author's evidence on the major effects of the embargo on Haiti's rural poor. The stated primary purpose of the embargoes was to pressure the Haitian army and its civilian supporters to restore democracy to Haiti through the reinstatement of Aristide as Haiti's president. The history of embargoes against Haiti dates from the early nineteenth century when Haitians successfully overthrew Napoleon's army in 1804 and created their republic. The implications of Haider Ali Khan's estimates for Haiti are limited because Haiti's agriculture is primarily internally rather than internationally driven. Many believe the poor were the primary and unambiguous losers of an embargo against Haiti.
