By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Michel Martelly’s inauguration on May 14, 2011 should have brought into effect a new US-written constitution for Haiti, with amendments of over one third of all the Articles in the country’s 1987 Constitution.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti, it seems, would hardly need a parliament, with the world community toasting the smooth elections, and Mr. Martelly on course to resolve his housing problems. The Haitians who stayed away from the polls beg to differ. A popular slogan is: “There was no first round, so there can be no second round.”
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “The carrots are cooked!” we cheerfully say in Haiti, to announce when a stew is ready. Dr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide is due back home at 8:00 a.m. today.
Continue reading →By Fidel Castro Ruz, Escambray. The U.N., at the instigation of the U.S., creator of poverty and chaos in the Republic of Haiti. The U.S. had decided to send into Haitian territory its occupation troops the MINUSTAH (U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti) which, in passing, introduced the cholera epidemic into that brother country.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. To hear it all, one would think that the Haitian electoral fraud happened yesterday. In fact, the fraud went down many months ago, when a corrupt electoral commission (CEP) with U.S., Canadian and French financial backing, banned the most popular political party Lavalas from the elections.
Continue reading →By Staff, Haitian Truth | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Three news bulletins on the Nov 18, 2010 anniversary of the Bataille de Vertieres and the popular uprisings when Haitians learned about MINUSTAH’s importation of cholera into the country.
Continue reading →Interview of President Aristide with Nicolas Rossier. “When we say democracy we have to mean what we say.” Jean-Bertrand Aristide, during his forced exile in South Africa.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. It is high time to bid good riddance to MINUSTAH [Mission des Nations Unies pour la (de)Stabilisation en Haiti], a colonial occupation army that has terrorized Haiti for the last six years and overseen its sham presidential and legislative elections.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Aid money comes with strings attached, and perhaps the most pernicious strings of all have been the projects to depopulate Haiti of its youngest citizens. Over 1,100 children were removed from Haiti to the U.S., on U.S. aircrafts and from a U.S.-controlled airport, immediately after the earthquake.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A wealthy man in the Ganthier area is accused of expropriating over 9,000 acres of land coveted by various NGOs and selling the majority of this land to high-level members of the police force, former ministers, a former representative of Ganthier in Haiti’s parliament, and the wife of the current Minister.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Despite all the donors conferences and talk of elections, little has changed in the past five months for Haiti’s homeless and dispossessed, apart from the start of the heavy rains and an increasing repression of their freedom of speech and assembly.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Things haven’t cooled down in Haiti. Quite the contrary. They’re just starting to simmer.
Continue reading →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 →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. It is Haitian Independence Day, and I am in a mood to celebrate year two-hundred and six. The stereo blasts a wild, up-tempo, tune. Haitian drums burn! As I dance, I explain to my befuddled husband that this exhuberant song is about a woman who survived a storm. She is stuck up a tree and singing that her day to die has not yet come.
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