The chicken egg thing started during the embargo on Haiti during the time of the junta that ousted Aristide the first time.
Haitians say that the dR dumped eggs in Pau?P selling them for far less then even production cost and the last egg producer of note collapsed. The powerful elite in Haiti hold the import lines on chickens from the US so that was another issue behind the boycott.
I believe it still holds although I have not been up to Dajabon for the market for a long time.
The DR suffered mightily from this boycott as the major egg producers in Moca lost a huge market.
I toured with Max Antoine, head of Haiti{s border foundation, with a Canadian who was interested in helping find money to improve the little chicken coop project that they have.
Haiti has been so very hard hit.. AIDS, the Creole pig massacre, the import of subsidized US rice which collapsed their home production, then the earthquake... all on top of unstable political.
But both Aristide and Duvalier are home. Both have been visited by the Justice Department. But it is very impressive to me that both are being treated as former heads of State.. well, ok,. they are not on the reviewing stands together like Bush and Clinton.. but considering that they both had bloody massacres involved during their tenure, it seems pretty civilized to me.
Martelly is very smart and the government seems to be doing a massively great campaign out of Chicago.
I do not know how many of you know that Obama{s political director was Haitian American
