Welcome Back Aristide!
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.
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The Slave Revolution that Created a Nation
Film by Clifford Pierre, Ray Sykes, Charlie Steiner on the Haitian Revolution: the world’s only successful slave revolt.
Continue reading →Haitian Freedom = Haitian Pumpkin Soup
Renewal 4 Haiti recipe | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Throughout their reign of terror, the French forbade Haitians from drinking pumpkin soup (soup joumou), then considered to be a delicacy too sophisticated for a slave’s palate. As a symbol of freedom, Haitians everywhere have cooked a bottomless pot of pumpkin soup and celebrated our Independence Day by sharing this soup every January 1st since 1804. Happy Independence Day!
Continue reading →Haiti is Proof of the Failure of International Assistance | Haïti est la preuve de l’échec de l’aide internationale
Ricardo Seitenfus Interview With Arnaud Robert, Le Temps | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Departing Brazilian representative to the OAS, Ricardo Seitenfus, speaks his mind about the UN and NGO presence in Haiti. (English | French)
Continue reading →Fidel’s Reflexions: The Fight Against Cholera
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 →Haiti Elections: Yet More Kaka from MINUSTAH
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 →Genocide in Haiti: Carelessness or Malice?
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The United Nations and 42 non-governmental organizations (NGO) are asking to be paid about $600 for every Haitian to be contaminated with cholera. There is money in cholera.
Continue reading →Interview With President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, by Nicolas Rossier
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 →Haiti: A Six-Month Report Without Cute Baby Pictures or Demands for Aid Money
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 →Spain Reveals Cuba’s Plan to Free All Political Prisoners
By Anita Brooks, The Independent UK. The Spanish Foreign Minister yesterday told his country’s parliament that Cuba would soon release all political prisoners and suggested that the E.U. and U.S. could respond by softening longstanding sanctions against the island nation.
Continue reading →Grand Projects Versus the People!
By Staff, Haiti Progres | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Only Port-au-Prince matters to the reconstruction effort, so there is no use for the parliament, which was dissolved in April 2010 to make way for a Clinton-led colonial coalition called the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC). (English | French)
Continue reading →In Haiti, the Rains and Repression Start in Earnest
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 →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.
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.
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