The overwhelmed subsidy policy that took force after the earthquake meant that “today, practically, all the food consumed in Haiti is imported, including products such as sugar and rice, which were produced without the need for imports. ... We can say that the international community set out to prevent Haiti from being a successful experiment and so far it seems that this objective has been achieved,” Robert Fatton, UVA professor and author of several investigations on Haiti, told “BBC World” in 2020.