Argentina Quote by Michael Parenti

One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

— Smedley Butler

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

— Edwidge Danticat

Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men…

— Warren G. Harding

Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at…

— Regis Debray

It's important to remember there is a 20 year US. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. That represents a major transition in the…

— Laurent Dubois

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

— Stephen Kinzer

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in…

— Edwidge Danticat

The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate our own…

— Noam Chomsky

The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there…

— Edwidge Danticat

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican…

— Junot Diaz

Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know…

— Earl Hancock Ellis

Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties…

— Lynn Montross