Haiti’s Open Vein at Caracol Industrial Park

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Haitians, who previously sold their kin as outright slaves and sugar-cane cutters, continue to sell them into sweatshops and other horrific work environments at home and abroad. Consider the case of Caracol Industrial Park, in … Continue reading →

Adyjeangardy Gets International History Prize for ‘History of Haiti’s Arawak Indians’

By Amos Cincir, Omega World News | Haiti Chery. Translated by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. Historian and career journalist Ady Jean-Gardy, or Adyjeangardy, was awarded the French Academy Institute of Arts and Letters International History Prize during the weekend of May 2-3, 2015 for his work, “Histoires des Indiens Arawaks d’Haiti” (History of Haiti’s Arawak Indians). (English | French)

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Le festin des dieux: Lien du Vodou à l’agriculture d’Haïti et aux ancêtres

Par Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. La religion et la culture haïtienne sont intimement liées à l’agriculture locale, à tel point que les cérémonies de Vaudou sont habituellement appelées manje lwa: festin des dieux. Nos lwa (dieux, esprits, divinités) doivent être nourris.

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Food for the Gods: Link of Vodou to Haiti’s Agriculture, a Legacy of the Ancestors

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Haitian religion and culture are so linked to local agriculture that Vodou ceremonies are routinely called manje lwa: food for the gods. Our lwa (gods, spirits, deities) must be fed. They are not eternal and … Continue reading →

Dominicans Are Not Haiti’s Enemies, Corruption and Occupation Are

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery We love blood, don’t we? As if, by staring at our reflections in this viscous red liquid we might lose fear. We are horrified and entranced by the eviscerated child in Gaza, or the naked … Continue reading →

From Haiti to Guatemala: MINUSTAH’s Edmond Mulet Comes Home to Roost

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Today, we have a big shot returning from the United Nations Mission for the Stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH), one who descends from the Guatemala of Efrain Rios Montt (1982-1983): we have Edmond Mulet, the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the UN and probably Guatemala’s next president.

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Doutrina Monroe Imperial Vigente: Golpes Silenciosos na América Latina, o Caso do Equador

Por Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Traduzido do inglês por Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. A estabilidade da América Latina, contudo, é a estabilidade de paciente comatoso. Começou com maciça expansão em tempo de paz de forças policiais e militares em Argentina, Brasil e Chile (ABC), começando em torno de 2004, com patrocínio das Nações Unidas. (Inglês | Português)

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Haiti’s Leadership Against Imperialism

By Michel-Ange Cadet Haiti Chery Negro: that’s what they called us. Not to designate our person but mainly to assert a supposed supremacy which they believed themselves to hold and in the name of which we had to serve them, … Continue reading →

Pensée impériale

Par Michel-Ange Cadet, Haiti Chery | Tableaux de Gerard Fortuné. “Leurs intérêts pour l’homme, les races humaines, et les nations se réduisent à ce que ces hommes peuvent leur rapporter. L’appétit pour l’or, la richesse, la gloire, et pour dominer et assujettir constituent l’essence même de l’idéal impérial.”

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Yet More Brazilian Military Train to Take Command in Haiti | Militares treinam para exercer comando no Haiti

CCOPAB, Brazilian Ministry of Defense, Air Forces | Commentary and translation from the Portuguese by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Forty-two soldiers from the Brazilian Navy, Army, and Air Force concluded, on Friday, January 30, 2015, an Internship in the Preparation of Commanders and Staff for the 22nd Brazilian contingent for MINUSTAH. (English | Portuguese)

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Hypothesis for a New Revolution in Haiti | L’hypothèse d’une nouvelle révolution en Haïti

By Michel Ange Cadet, Haiti Chery. Revolution emanates, first and foremost from a collective consciousness. One must take stock of one’s own predicament. And this in turn forces us out of our indifference to act, so that we stop dreaming but give life to a common ideal. (English | French)

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Lessons from MLK: Call for a General Strike in Haiti | Appel à une grève générale en Haïti

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. In Haiti and everywhere, all non-violent action boils down to one principle: non-cooperation in one’s own repression. (English | French)

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Dominican Republic: Haitians Strike Back on Independence Day

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. On the 211th Anniversary of Haitian Independence, January 1, 2015, some Dominican navy people must have decided to have their fun by arresting a group of Haitian fishermen in their own waters. Big mistake. The response was swift and categorical.

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United Nations Challenged About Bill Clinton’s Immunity in Haiti

Press Release, Haiti Chery. Lawyers Newton Louis St Juste and André Michel have legally challenged the UN Secretary General to clarify whether Bill Clinton’s 18 months as Co-Chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) from 2009 to 2011, while he was UN Special Envoy for Haiti, entitles him to UN privileges and immunities against prosecutions being considered in the courts of Haiti and other countries.

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