By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Despite all the donors conferences and talk of elections, little has changed in the past five months for Haiti’s homeless and dispossessed, apart from the start of the heavy rains and an increasing repression of their freedom of speech and assembly.
Continue reading →By Marcela Valente, IPS. Buenos Aires – Textile cooperatives founded by former slave labourers from Argentina and Thailand will jointly launch a new brand of clothing in June to raise awareness about exploitation and promote decent jobs in the garment industry.
Continue reading →By Ansel Herz, IPS | Media Hacker. UN troops responded to a rock-throwing demonstration by university students in front of a homeless camp Monday evening with a barrage of tear gas ganisters, flash grenades, and rubber bullets that injured women and children in the camp.
Continue reading →By Hervé Jean Michel, Haiti Liberte. Teleco, the crown jewel of Haiti’s state enterprises, was sold for the fire-sale price of $59 million.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Things haven’t cooled down in Haiti. Quite the contrary. They’re just starting to simmer.
Continue reading →By David B. Williams, EARTH Magazine. “This is the ‘nail in the coffin’ for those who doubt that birds really are dinosaurs.” – David Fastovsky
Continue reading →By Eduardo Galeano, Rebelion | Yes! Magazine. “Human rights and the rights of Nature are two names of the same dignity.” – Eduardo Galeano. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →Staff, HPN | Translated by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. “By contrast to other groups of foreign doctors, we visit citizens’ dwellings so we may assist a greater number of people with their sanitation needs.” – Emiliano Melero, coordinator of Venezuelan doctors in Haiti. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Jessica Leeder, The Globe and Mail. There are some things in Jacmel, Haiti, that the earthquake didn’t change. One is the sight of Claudel Chery, better known as Zaka, a charismatic but pensive young man with a wild mane of dreadlocks, traipsing about town with a video camera in hand.
Continue reading →By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Contracts will be granted, moneys will disappear, and spectacular scandals will ensue, but in the end, there will be no reconstruction.
Continue reading →By Staff, Terra Daily. “If the UN is living on a cruise ship, it is the perfect metaphor for how they are viewed here in the country….” Richard Morse, owner of Port-au-Prince’s iconic Hotel Oloffson.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Among the parasites that prey on humans, those most pernicious live in the tropics and work by proxy.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A remarkable aspect of the recent Haitian and Chilean earthquakes was the swift mobilization of military force to protect property instead of persons.
Continue reading →By Arun Gupta, Z Magazine. Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief.
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