Britain feared Haitians would ‘swamp’ tax haven after US-backed coup
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BRITISH diplomats were terrified that one of their Caribbean tax havens would be overwhelmed by refugees from Haiti, newly revealed papers show.
Haiti’s first democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown in a US-backed coup in 1991.
The military takeover forced thousands to flee. By 1992 the US was desperately asking the British Foreign Office if it could build a screening centre on the neighbouring British territory of Turks and Caicos Islands.
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