By Eric Kamba, SF Bay View. The U.N. force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is called MONUSCO and is headed by Roger Meece, a former U.S. ambassador to the DRC. In addition to fixing elections, killing, raping, and generally doing everything MINUSTAH does in Haiti, MONUSCO deals in weapons and valuable minerals.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Half of Haiti’s medical NGOs have left and more plan to shut down their cholera-treatment programs by the year’s end. And guess what? Haiti will get healthier (English | French).
Continue reading →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.
Continue reading →Video by Yvon Vilius and Ansel Herz, Media Hacker. Anti-UN demonstrations in Port-au-Prince and Leogane this month were reported as involving a couple of hundred people. See for yourself.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s Ministry of Health finally gave in and officially announced the beginning of a vaccination campaign against cholera, after one year of pressure from the UN’s Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The proposed vaccine, called Shanchol, is wrought with scandal, and preparations for use in developing countries contain the dangerous mercury-based preservative thiomersal. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Sebastián Amaya, El Observador | Translated by Lo de alla | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The case against the five Uruguayan MINUSTAH marines, who are under investigation for assaulting a Haitian boy in Port-Salut, could be filed away because the Uruguay court says that the Haitian boy has not reported for questioning and has not filed charges in Uruguay. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Dialogue 200 and Jubilee South Network, Press Release. We support the demands of our partner organizations in Haiti, who reject the presence of this occupation force and demand that the UN, instead of bringing new problems such as rape, murder and the cholera epidemic that has so far claimed more than 6,000 lives, proceed to apply exemplary sanctions and offer compensation to the victims.
Continue reading →By Staff, Xinhua via COMTEX and GTW | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s Senate has ratified Garry Conille, a Duvalierist Clinton aide and U.N. employee, as Prime Minister. See Conille translate for his boss, Bill Clinton, in the accompanying video.
Continue reading →By Michaëlle Desrosiers and Franck Seguy, A l’Encontre | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Translated by Diaro Octubre. MINUSTAH almost exclusively attacks those who are most despised, humbled, and impoverished. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →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 →
Editorial Comment Brazil’s Landless Peasant Movement (MST) supports the struggles of the Haitian people against the MINUSTAH occupation forces. DC By Dan La Botz Labor Notes Workers in Brazil — in heavy industry, services, the public sector, and agriculture — … Continue reading →
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)
Continue reading →By Eduardo Galeano, Cuba Si. “It is worth repeating it once again, so that the deaf can hear: Haiti was the founding country of the independence of America and the first one that defeated slavery in the world. It deserves much more than the fame sprung from its misfortunes.” – Eduardo Galeano. (English | French | Portuguese | Spanish)
Continue reading →Staff, HPN | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Haitian Senate unanimously approved a resolution that calls for MINUSTAH’s departure by October 2012, but this resolution was non binding on the executive. (English | French)
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