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

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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The Death of Gerard Jean-Gilles: How the UN Stonewalled Haitian Justice

By Ansel Herz Haiti Liberté Faced with growing outrage over an alleged sexual assault (in July 2011) by UN occupation soldiers on 18-year-old Johnny Jean in the southern town of Port Salut, the UN is pledging to investigate the incident … Continue reading →

The Truth About Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic: Interview of Dr. Renaud Piarroux by Dady Chery

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Dr. Renaud Piarroux led a team including Haitian epidemiologists that tracked Haiti’s cholera to the Nepalese MINUSTAH base in October 2010 (English | French).

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Haiti: Uruguayan People Demand MINUSTAH Withdrawal | El síndrome de la mano extraña: un país no es su gobierno

By Fernando Moyano, SURda | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Mujica fails to specify that this is an army of occupation soldiers. The proof that this is a military occupation is the fact that it violates the self-determination of people and promotes the moral degradation of the soldiery. (English | Spanish)

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Haiti: After the Quake

By Sebastian Walker Al Jazeera Sebastian Walker saw firsthand how Haitians dug up their dead from the rubble with their bare hands. He witnessed people struggling to recover from an earthquake, violent weather and disease. Millions throughout the country were … Continue reading →

‘Peacekeeping’: A Cancer on the World

By Patrick Worsnip, SwissInfo | Relief Web | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. If this peacekeeping cancer isn’t removed, it will metastasize all over the world.

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Cable: UN Peacekeepers Traded Food for Sex

Editorial Comment The title of this article should be: United Nations Soldiers Trade Food for Sex.  These are invading troops, not peacekeepers. Furthermore, the trade of food for sex is not in the past; it is happening right now, everywhere … Continue reading →

Why It Took Eleven Months Instead of Three Weeks to Show that Haiti’s Cholera Is Nepalese | Onze mois au lieu de trois semaines pour montrer que le choléra en Haïti provient du Népal

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. It took nearly a year to provide conclusive scientific proof that Haiti’s cholera came from Nepal because, despite an epidemiological link of the disease to a UN base full of Nepalese troops, scientists had not bothered to compare the cholera from Haiti to cholera from Nepal. (English | French)

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

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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Dutch Court Opens Door to Legal Accountability for Peacekeepers

By Thalif Deen, IPS | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A landmark ruling by a Dutch court in July 2011 holding the Netherlands government liable for the failings of its soldiers on a U.N. peacekeeping mission may be used as a precedent for criminal liability involving sexual violence, according to human rights groups.

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Let Them Live on $3 a Day | Usines Levis et Hanes ont combattu, avec l’ambassade des É.-U., l’augmentation du salaire minimum en Haïti

By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives, The Nation. Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes, and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables. (English | French)

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A Prefab Parliament, Prefab President, and Prefab Constitution for Occupied Haiti

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.

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Declaration on Haiti by Cuban FM Bruno Rodriguez | Bruno Rodríguez en ONU: ‘La reconstrucción de Haití es tarea pendiente’

By Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, Cuban News Agency, Radio Cubana | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The so-called Mission for U.N. Stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH) wants to recast itself as a development mission. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez spoke up in defense of Haitian self determination and against this attempt to turn Haiti into a U.N. protectorate. (English | Spanish)

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Ex-Singer Tied to Death Squads Named Winner in Haitian Vote

By Bill Van Auken, WSWS. Michel Martelly, the ex-Kompa singer who cast himself as a political outsider and champion of “change,” was named Monday as the winner of the second round of Haiti’s presidential election with 67.57 percent of the votes cast and a turnout of about 25 percent.

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