Because you don't bite the hand that feeds you. They are so incredibly poor and at the mercy of the rest of the world. They are handcuffed. The conclusion I had come to was that we purposely caused the quake to go in under UN cover and eventually seize their gold (there is more gold in reserves in Hispaniola than anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere), but now I hear we were already there. What the heck were we there for before the quake?