“Pardon my ignorance, but how can there be NO FOOD in a tropical environment which is able to produce food year round. are there no farms?”
Read this and you will know how:
http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=10729
“The American-led eradication of the indigenous Creole pig to preempt an outbreak of African swine fever in the early 1980s had disastrous social and economic consequences on the livelihoods of people in rural Haiti.”
Send them some feral pigs for #&!* sakes. Texas is over run with them. That will keep the muzzies away too! Then Haiti might become the BBQ capital of the Caribbean.