Tag Archives: Bolivia

‘Manifesto for Human Rights of Haitian Immigrants in Brazil’ Drafted by Latin Americans | Des universités et organisations du Brésil et de l’Amérique latine exigent la défense des droits humains des migrants haïtiens | MANIFESTO EM DEFESA DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS DE IMIGRANTES HAITIANOS

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

Jesuit Refugee Service for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC SJR), AlterPresse | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti | Centro de Direitos Humanos e Cidadania do Imigrante. Signatories to a manifesto for the human rights of Haitian immigrants recommend that the Brazilian government work with Latin-American governmental and non-governmental organizations to host the new Haitian immigrants in South America. (English | French | Portuguese)

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Haitians Emigrating to Brazil Undocumented

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

iBy Staff, Listín Diario | By Najla Passos, Carta Maior | Translated from Spanish and Portuguese by David Holmes Morris for lo-de-alla. Some 500 undocumented Haitian immigrants entered the Brazilian city of Brasileia, in the last three days of 2011. The illegal entry might have been dangerous and mediated by human traffickers. On Feb 2, 2012, during a visit to Haiti, Brazilian President Dilma Rousef said her country would grant Haitians 1,200 visas per year for the next five years. (English | Spanish | Portuguese)

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Kambo, Frog Spirit of the Shaman

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

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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Leaders of the CELAC Countries | From UNASUR to CELAC | Los mandatarios de los países de la CELAC | De UNASUR a CELAC

avatarPosted on by December 22, 2018

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)

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Favela Rocinha Occupation by Haiti-Trained Troops, Photo Essay

avatarPosted on by December 28, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (text) | Marcelo Sayao (photos). The attack on Brazil’s Rocinha slum illustrates a peacetime merger of military with police to make war on their country’s poor. If your country has contributed troops to UN (de)stabilization missions, sit up and take notice.

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Landslide Vote for Sandinistas in Nicaragua

avatarPosted on by January 3, 2019

By Toni Solo, Tortilla con Sal | Martha Grevatt, Grevatt blog. This electoral landslide represents an enthusiastic vote of approval for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) and a huge blow to the Nicaraguan right.

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Native Protesters Celebrate Law Cancelling Rainforest Road

avatarPosted on by February 25, 2018

By Franz Chávez, IPS. LA PAZ – With victory cheers and predictions of future campaigns in defense of their ancestral territory, indigenous protesters from Bolivia’s Amazon jungle region celebrated the new law that banned the construction of the road through their rainforest reserve.

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Nobel Prize Laureates and Prominent Latin Americans Demand UN Mission Withdrawal from Haiti

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

Editorial Comment Nobel Peace Prize laureates Argentinean Adolfo Perez Esquivel and Irish Betty Williams, Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, and Brazilian theologians Leonardo Boff and Frei Betto are among those who wrote a letter that calls for the withdrawal of the … Continue reading →

Dady Chery’s Top 10 Reasons Why MINUSTAH Should Go | Les 10 premières raisons pour lesquelles la MINUSTAH devrait partir | Las 10 primeras razones para qué la MINUSTAH deba irse | Lista dos dez principais motivos pelos quais a MINUSTAH deveria ir-se

avatarPosted on by December 22, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (English, French) | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. MINUSTAH’s worst crime so far is killing over 8,000 Haitians with cholera. It is a degraded, degrading, and unwanted occupation force that must go. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)

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Wikileaked U.S. Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting U.N. Force in Haiti

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Dan Coughlin, Haiti Liberté. The United Nations forces that occupy Haiti are poorly trained. They have spied on student groups, impaired elections, and recklessly shot, killed and wounded hundreds of civilians.

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Bye-Bye MINUSTAH! | Bye-Bye MINUSTAH! | Bye-Bye MINUSTAH! | Adeus MINUSTAH!

avatarPosted on by January 3, 2019

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otavio Rodrigues Paes Leme. This article was first published in Aug 2011 when newly sworn Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim said he wanted to conclude Brazil’s participation in the notorious United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)

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The Open Veins of Climate Change | Los derechos del hombre y la tierra

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Eduardo Galeano, Rebelion | Yes! Magazine. “Human rights and the rights of Nature are two names of the same dignity.” – Eduardo Galeano. (English | Spanish)

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Haiti: Consummating a U.S. Takeover

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Contracts will be granted, moneys will disappear, and spectacular scandals will ensue, but in the end, there will be no reconstruction.

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Haiti: A New U.S. Occupation Disguised as Disaster Relief?

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

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.

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