Bill Clinton’s Dictatorship in Haiti
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Things haven’t cooled down in Haiti. Quite the contrary. They’re just starting to simmer.
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The Worst-Kept Secret in Haiti: the UN’s Cruise Ship Hotel
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 →Parasitism in the Tropics: The Coming Floods, Disease, and Immunity in Haiti
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 →Haiti: A New U.S. Occupation Disguised as Disaster Relief?
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.
Continue reading →A Valentine for My Restavek Mothers and the Stolen Children of Haiti
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. One cannot talk about orphaned Haitian children without confronting two highly controversial and interwoven subjects: Vodou and restavek. Both are part of the very fabric of the Haitian family, which is currently under vicious attack.
Continue reading →The Humanitarian Myth
By Richard Seymour, Socialist Worker. Within days of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, the U.S. government had sent thousands of 82nd Airborne troops and Marines, alongside the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson. “We are there for the long term.” – Alejandro Wolff, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Continue reading →Exporting Misery to Haiti: How Pigs, Rice and US Policy Undermined the Haitian Economy
By James Ridgeway, Reader Supported News | Haiti Chery “Since the 1980s, in particular, the United States has helped turn a nation of low-tech subsistence farmers into a dumping ground for American agribusiness.”
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