Haitian MPs Who Support Mayors’ Dismissal Will Get Community Development Funds | La Fenamh met l’exécutif en garde contre tout renvoi des cartels municipaux

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Gerard Maxineau, Le Nouvelliste | Editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The National Federation of Haitian Mayors (FENAMH) has fingered the executive and some lawmakers as having recently drafted a plan to dissolve 140 municipal councils and replace them with municipal boards at the service of the parliamentarians, but this plan was drafted abroad in the prefab constitution that came along with Haiti’s prefab president and its prefab parliament exactly one year ago. It is a plan especially designed to grab lands in northern Haiti.

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Theory of Degrowth Questions Validity of Extractive Economy | Miradas argentinas al decrecimiento | Olhar argentino sobre o decrescimento

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Marcela Valente, Tierramerica | Rebelion. A number of Latin American countries have achieved economic growth by an extractivist model of production that increases the gross domestic product (GDP) at the cost of the intensive use of gradually exhausted natural resources. (English | Spanish | Portuguese)

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Financial Enslavement of West Africans By France

avatarPosted on by December 17, 2018

By Antoine Roger Lokongo, Pambazuka News. Francophone Africans from 14 countries deposit 65 percent of their hard currencies yearly into the French Treasury, without French nationality or access to the public goods and services available to French taxpayers. Close to 1,500 billion CFA (Communauté Financière d’Afrique common currency) francs generated from the surplus of West African states’ foreign reserves are placed on the foreign stock markets and out of the reach of the Africans who own the money. In addition the French force money payments, like an Ivory Coast compensation for the recent war.

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Agricultural Sector Could Boost Development | Le secteur agricole ‘pourrait constituer le poumon du développement national’

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Nocles Debreus, Le Matin | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s agricultural sector creates 50 percent of the country’s employment overall and 80 percent in rural areas. Agronomist Phito Blémur believes that policies toward development and poverty reduction must take into account the vital role this sector played immediately after Independence when it accounted for 95 percent of the GDP, instead of the current 26 percent. (English | French)

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Fearless Bahraini Family Speaks Out About Those Inside

avatarPosted on by March 10, 2019

By Staff, Witness Bahrain | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. On February 9, 2012, after being sentenced to life imprisonment for peacefully calling for reforms, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja launched a hunger strike and vowed he would persevere until freedom or death.

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When Will Haiti’s Next elections Take Place? | A quand les prochaines élections en Haïti?

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Staff (EJ), Radio Metropole | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The mandates of one third of the Haitian Senate and various municipal executives expired in mid-January 2012, and the mandate of another third of the Senate expired on May 8. Mayors and local officials have been replaced by presidential decree, and no administrative provision is in place to organize new elections. (English | French)

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Haitians Trafficked to Brazil to Work for Problematic French Utility GDF-Suez | Rebelión obrera retrasa grandes obras en Brasil

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Mario Osava, IPS. Unrest was predicted to break out at Jirau because of worker solidarity, the low wages and an employer, the foreign utility GDF Suez, that provides terrible working conditions and little personal time. (English | Spanish)

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Gold Is for Thieves and Swindlers’ Excerpt from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

avatarPosted on by March 9, 2019

By B. Traven, Hill and Wang, New York, 1967 | Scribd | Wikipedia | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is regarded as B. Traven’s masterpiece, but this book, written in 1935, is merely the best-known work by a master storyteller who lived and wrote for another 34 years. Traven’s body of work celebrates wildness and chronicles the loss of individual freedom in his lifetime.

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Cinco de Mayo Battle of Puebla Victory Over the French

avatarPosted on by March 5, 2019

By Christopher Minster, Latin American History/About.com. On May 5, 1862, at the Battle of Puebla, the French attacked Mexico to try to collect a debt after President Benito Juarez declared bankruptcy from a civil war, but the French were soundly defeated by a cavalry led by Porfirio Diaz.

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International Network of Activists Fight Mining Giant Vale: ‘Worst Company in The World’ | Minera Vale de Brasil acusada de daños ambientales y humanos

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Fabíola Ortiz, IPS. Brazilian mining giant Vale was named the Worst Company in the World by the Public Eye Awards in January 2012. A multinational report accuses the company of 15 worker deaths between 2010 and 2012, and massive emissions of greenhouse gases and particulate matter into the atmosphere. (English | Spanish)

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Barrick in the Dominican Republic

avatarPosted on by February 22, 2018

By Staff, Protestbarrick. As the opening date approaches for the Dominican Republic’s Pueblo Viejo mine, controversy around this mega-mine has continued to grow. According to the president of Maimón’s municipal committee, the funds Barrick has transferred to the municipality are less than the costs of the damage it has caused. Community members complain that the workers in the mine are overwhelmingly foreigners. Recently Barrick was accused of blocking the performance of the protest song “De Pascua Lama” (video included) at a Dominican Festival.

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Poor Little Rich Haiti to Be Fleeced of Copper-Silver-Gold Via Caracol Deep-Water Port

avatarPosted on by July 30, 2022

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Plans are under way for Canadian and US corporations to mine Haiti’s northeast area near Caracol, which has been discovered to contain a wealth of silver and gold, in addition to copper. As in the Dominican Republic’s Pueblo Viejo project, construction of the mines will involve dynamiting of mountains, and the ore will be extracted by an opencast (or open-pit) mining process that contaminates large volumes of water with cyanide. UPDATES: Attempts to issue mining permits to the US’ VCS Mining LLC and Canada’s SOMINE SA, without any environmental impact assessment (EIA) were thwarted by Haiti’s Senate in January 2013. Plans to dredge a deep-sea port in the pristine Bay of Fort Liberte were scrapped in April 2014.

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The Man Who Planted Trees | L’homme qui plantait des arbres | El hombre que plantaba árboles | O Homem que Plantava Árvores

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Frederic Back, You Tube | Based on Jean Giono’s short story, The Man Who Planted Trees. Director Frédéric Back’s marvellous interpretation of Giono’s allegory won an Oscar for short animation. The story is a tribute to hard work and patience. (English | French | Portuguese | Spanish, 30 min.)

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Pentavalent Vaccines Promoted by WHO Despite Deaths of Healthy Children – Part II, Haiti | Le vaccin pentavalent promu par l’OMS malgré des décès des enfants en bonne santé – 2ème Partie, Haïti

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Emmanuel Bruno Marino, AlterPresse | All-India Drug Action Network | Translations by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Within two months of the start of a campaign of vaccination with pentavalent vaccine in India by the World Health Organization (WHO), four healthy inoculated children died. Nevertheless, on April 16, 2012 Haiti announced that it would introduce the pentavalent vaccine Quinvaxem into its national immunization program at a cost $11 million. (English | French)

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