By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (text) | Marcelo Sayao (photos). The attack on Brazil’s Rocinha slum illustrates a peacetime merger of military with police to make war on their country’s poor. If your country has contributed troops to UN (de)stabilization missions, sit up and take notice.
Continue reading →By Giovanni Dubon, Prospect Journal. In 2008, Brazil’s state of Rio de Janeiro alone experienced 1,137 police killings, compared to 371 in the whole United States.
Continue reading →By Lionel Trouillot | Translated by Linda Coverdale. The Grand Prix du Roman Métis was awarded last week to Haitian poet and novelist Lyonel Trouillot for his novel La Belle Amour Humaine, published by Actes Sud (2011). (English | French)
Continue reading →By staff, Cuba News Agency. A literacy program by Cuba and Venezuela graduated 214 people in Leogane last week and has so far trained 51,163 Haitians to read and write.
Continue reading →By Humberto Márquez, IPS. The Venezuelan government has expropriated 25 ranches to distribute 15,800 hectares (39,042 acres) to communities of Yukpa Indians in the northwest of the country who have been protesting to be returned the lands from which they had been driven. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Philipp Hedemann, IPS | Street News Service. Since 2008 there has been an unprecedented rush to secure farmland in Africa, South America and Asia. The main commodities include sugar cane, maize, rice, wheat, soy, sorghum, sesame, oil seeds, and child labour.
Continue reading →By Jonathan Benson, Natural News via OpEd News. Baxter is recalling 300,000 doses of its Preflucel influenza vaccine due to an excessive number of adverse events.
Continue reading →By Jim Siegel and Joe Vardon, Columbus Dispatch. Voters defeated Senate Bill 5 — Issue 2 — which would have limited collective bargaining by the Ohio public sector, this U.S. state’s biggest employer of people of color.
Continue reading →By Steve Connor, The Independent. From the Arctic sea to the Antarctican ice shelves, the frozen “cryosphere” is showing the unequivocal signs of climate change.
Continue reading →By Adriaan Alsema, Colombia Reports | By Helda Martínez, IPS | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nationwide protests are planned by Colombian students, teachers, and labor unions against a law that would allow private businesses to invest in public institutions for higher education. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Toni Solo, Tortilla con Sal | Martha Grevatt, Grevatt blog. This electoral landslide represents an enthusiastic vote of approval for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) and a huge blow to the Nicaraguan right.
Continue reading →MercoPress via Haiti Chery. China’s People’s Liberation Army “Peace Ark” ship carries more than 100 medical volunteers who are providing free surgery, CAT scans, eye care and other procedures to Jamaica’s needy.
Continue reading →By James Brownsell, Al Jazeera | Haiti Chery. As Israeli civil and military forces uproot olive trees and replace them with eucalyptus on 12 km along the edge of the Gaza Strip, Palestinians gardeners and their supporters plant many more olive trees.
Continue reading →By Holly Klaft, Jackson Citizen Patriot. Only 500 whooping cranes are left in the wild, and this year one stopped for the first time in a small Louisiana town during his southerly migration.
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