Is This Also A Description of Haiti, Past and Present???

The following quotations are from an article in the January 2016 Sojourners Magazine by OT scholar Walter Brueggemann titled "The Earth Awakens."  To me, this concise description of OT economics is disturbingly similar to Haiti's economy over the last 500 years:

"The economy of ancient Israel, a small economy, was controlled and administered by the socio-political elites in the capital cities of Samaria in the north and Jerusalem in the south.  Those elites clustered around the king and included the priests, the scribes, the tax collectors, and no doubt other powerful people.  Those urban elites extracted wealth from the small, at-risk peasant-farmers who at best lived a precarious subsistence life.  The process of extraction included taxation [Haiti, including customs fees/taxes] and high interest rates on loans.

"The 'normative' economy of the period had assumed that the economy consisted of only two participants: 1) the productive peasants, and 2) the urban elites, who did not work or produce anything but who lived well off of peasant produce."

God sent prophet after prophet to expose and condemn this economic system of oppression, called for repentance and required that justice be done.