Haiti’s Travesty of Justice: Police Goons Not Tried in Journalist Beating

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. All parties in the case of journalist Gerdy Jeremie’s beating by two agents of Haiti’s paramilitary police (UDMO) came to court on Thursday, December 11, 2014 for a hearing, as agreed. The hearing did not take place, however, because the dean of the court, Robert Cadet, had ordered the premises to be shut down.

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Outsourcing Customs Tax Collection in Haiti and Elsewhere

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A contract was granted under irregular circumstances by Haiti’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Marie Camelle Jean-Marie, that grants control of all customs tariffs of the Republic of Haiti to the Swiss multinational company Societe Generale de Surveillance SA (SGS), for 10 years.

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Overpopulation Fuels Climate Change: Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

By Dady Chery and Gilbert Mercier Haiti Chery The United Nations has held countless major meetings on climate change, at great consumption of fuel, that have amounted to nothing but reports and promises of more talk. After many of these … Continue reading →

United Nations (UNHCR) Census Targeted Dominicans of Haitian Ancestry to Be Denationalized

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Dominican Constitutional Court Ruling TC168 of September 23, 2013 denationalizes over 200,000 Black Dominicans belonging to four generations whose ancestors entered the Dominican Republic between 1929 and 2007.

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Haiti’s Human Rights Organizations Say No to Dictatorship | Les Organisations Haïtiennes de Défense des Droits Humains disent non à la gouvernance par décret

By Staff, AHP | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. Thirteen human rights organizations have signed a memorandum to reject neo-dictatorship in Haiti after Michel Martelly declared that, if there could not be local elections in Haiti by January 12, 2015, he would rule by decree. (English | French)

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Brazil Tests Military Technology in Haiti, Trains Rising UN Troop Numbers

By Olivia Freitas and Fabio Zanini, Haiti Chery | Brazil Soberano e Libre. Translated by Dady Chery. The Brazilian army and its industrial partners are using Haiti as a testing ground for their latest armored vehicle, called the Guarani, which is meant for domestic repression and sale countries like Israel. Brazil is also training rising numbers of so-called peacekeepers for deployment to Haiti, although the UN mission in Haiti is supposedly being reduced.

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Et Tu, Brute? Haiti’s Betrayal By Latin America | Et Tu, Brute? Traição do Haiti pela América Latina

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Translated from the English by Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. Current-day occupiers of Haiti from the regions that had been freed by Bolivar like to recall the “glorious relationship of Bolivar and Petion,” as if this could hypnotize Haitians and ever be a distraction as these occupiers continue a tradition of betrayal. (English | Portuguese)

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What Is Consciousness and Do Humans Have a Monopoly on It?

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery There has not been so much excitement about the effect of electricity on the human body since Luigi Galvani discovered that an electrical stimulation of the nerves in the leg muscles of a dead frog … Continue reading →

Ebola Outbreak: Zombie Apocalypse or Boon for Vaccines?

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As early as 1995, researchers at the University of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, discovered that extremely sick Ebola-infected patients, including ones who had been comatose, could be saved by transfusions of blood from individuals who had recovered from the same Ebola infection.

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GDP, Money and the World Cup

By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery Haiti Chery No. It’s not only a game. The World Cup is about money. Lots of it. Quite apart from the $15 billion that Brazil spent “pacifying” the favelas and building stadiums in preparation … Continue reading →

Homage to My Mothers: Restavek, Vodou, and Haiti’s Stolen Children

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery “There are no orphans in Haiti!” After a long silence at the other end of the line, my friend Jordan murmurs: “Come again?” He must be thinking I lost my senses. I realize how I … Continue reading →

Copa Mundial 2014: Hermoso juego muestra fea desigualdad

Por Gilbert Mercier, Haiti Chery. Durante décadas, “joga bonito” era una manera inocente de la vida. Ahora bien, es un gran negocio en el que la corrupción, la codicia, la mentalidad de mercenario, y el comportamiento criminal, incluso francamente proliferan.

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Bataille pour l’Île-à-Vache: Interview avec Jérôme Genest de KOPI

Interview de Dady Chéry avec Jérôme Genest, Haiti Chery. Le Konbit Peyizan Ilavach (KOPI) est à l’avant-garde d’une lutte entre la branche exécutive d’Haiti et les habitants de l’Île-à-Vache, une île agricole de 52 kilometres carrés et 20,000 habitants au sud du pays.

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Antarctica’s Accelerating Melt: Massive Sea Level Rise in Decades

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | With regard to climate change, exponential processes have been treated as if they would develop linearly, despite scientists knowing quite well that they would not. The sea-level rise of 10 to 16 feet will come in decades, rather than 200 years. It will submerge essentially every port city in the world.

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