Kambo, Frog Spirit of the Shaman
By Marcelo Bolshaw Gomes, Entheogene. Rare frogs are drawing a lot of scientific interest these days, partly because the slimes of some frogs contain important medicinal substances.
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Interviews of Sonia Pierre, in Memoriam | Entrevistas de Sonia Pierre, in Memoriam
By Sonia Pierre, You Tube, Courtesy of Global Fund for Children | RFK Center. Sonia Pierre was the founder and director of Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA). Sonia’s death on Sunday, December 4, 2011 is a great loss to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →Why is Haiti ‘Attractive’?Pourquoi Haïti est si ‘attrayante’?
By Staff, Haiti Grassroots Watch. Part 3 of 7. Haiti is the only country that guarantees the U.S. market duty-free and quota-free access. With every free-trade zone that gets built on prime agricultural land, more farmers are put out of work. Thus Haitians import more food as real wages drop to rock bottom in the sweatshops, where there are now plans to legalize 3 x 8 hours work shifts. In Haiti, we sometimes talk figuratively about being eaten up. This comes pretty close to the real thing. DC (English | French)
Continue reading →Carbon Credits in the ‘Valley of Death’
By Jeremy Kryt, In These Times. The U.N. is endorsing two biogas plants at African-palm plantations in Honduras’ fertile Aguan Valley and ignoring its own report that biofuel production is a leading cause of food shortages worldwide. As farmers try to resist the theft of their lands, the Honduran homicide rate rises. It is currently 82 per 100,000: the highest in the world.
Continue reading →Biopiracy Leaves Native Groups Out in the Cold | Cazadores de la medicina perdida
By Humberto Márquez, IPS. Traditional Yanomami Indian medicine discovered that some fungi at the top of Venezuela’s mountains can cure many serious illnesses. These fungi will soon be a new source of the anti-cancer drug Taxol that makes $1.6 billion a year for Bristol Myers Squibb. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →Leaders of the CELAC Countries | From UNASUR to CELAC | Los mandatarios de los países de la CELAC | De UNASUR a CELAC
By Staff, Cuba Debate | CCS | Translated to English by Haiti Chery. CELAC is made up of 13 member nations from the Caribbean, 13 from South America, 6 from Central America, and 1 from the southern part of North America, whose leaders have agreed to promote an organization that will form a block in addressing the world’s challenges. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →Forest-Dependent Communities Lobby for End of REDD+
By Kristin Palitza, IPS. DURBAN, South Africa – The UN program to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) has been touted as a global scheme to conserve forests but is just a way to pour a lot of money into forests so international investors make big profits.
Continue reading →Undocumented, Unafraid: Alabama Immigrants Resist Harsh Law
By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes | Staff, Southern Poverty Law Center. Young immigrants in Alabama were joined by allies from labor and civil rights groups for a series of actions to announce they are undocumented and unafraid. UPDATE: Federal District Court halts Alabama law’s discriminatory housing practice.
Continue reading →Venezuela-Cuba-Haiti Collaboration to Build Cap Haitien Airport | L’Aéroport International du Cap Haïtien sera prêt en février 2013
By Staff, Haiti Libre | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Lamothe announced that the Cap Haitien International Airport will be ready in February 2013. Work on the airport will be done for $33 million, with assistance from Cuba and Venezuela.
Continue reading →Cuba’s Health Care Miracle in Haiti: Interview with Dr. Jorge Balseiro Estevez | Le Miracle Cubain des soins et de la santé en Haïti: Interview avec le Dr Jorge Estevez Balseiro
By Roger Annis and Jorge Balseiro Estevez, Haiti Liberté | CHAN | Haiti Chery translation. “The Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade has treated more than 18 million cases in Haiti. We have performed 304,577 surgeries and vaccinated 1,501,076 people. We estimate the number of lives we have saved is 284,239.”- Dr. Balseiro Estevez. Gracias a Cuba! (English | French)
Continue reading →Sunken Parts of Gondwana Found Off Australia
By Amy Coopes, Cosmos Magazine. Rocks from two ‘islands’ on the remote sea floor 1,600 km west of Australia contained fossils of creatures found in shallow waters, meaning the ‘islands’ were once part of the continent at or above sea level.
Continue reading →Deaths of U.S. Immigration Detainees, ACLU Reports
By Staff, Granma | By Will Matthews, ACLU. In the last eight years, 126 undocumented immigrants have died while in detention centers operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities. Complete ACLU detention report included.
Continue reading →In Brazil, Truth Without Consequence
By Staff, MercoPress. Brazil signed into law a Truth Commission to investigate the human rights crimes during two military interventions between 1946 and 1988, but this Commission falls under a 1979 Amnesty Bill that protects torturers and guerrillas from prosecution.
Continue reading →Non-White, the Majority Population in the ‘Racial Democracy’ of Brazil
By Staff, MercoPress. The most recent Brazilian census finds that 52.3 percent of the population is non-white; half of the population earns less than the minimum wage and, on average, Brazilians who are white and Asian earn twice as much as those who are black or mixed-race.
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