Ironically Aristide's programs weren't even very "radical:" Small minimum wage increases; schools and adult literacy centers for a largely illiterate population; hospitals in the slums; changing the written laws from French (which only 15% of the population speaks) to universally understood Kreyol; and minor redistribution of state-controlled fallow land. But even this was too much for the US and the Haitian elite who were incensed no longer monopolizing power.