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 →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Hurricane Tomas swept through the Grande Anse region of Haiti last weekend, destroying over 1,000 homes and killing more than 30 people. I would challenge readers to find the words Grande Anse in any English-language news of Haiti.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As of October 28, 2010, over 300 Haitians have died and over 4,000 have fallen ill of cholera. The press immediately blamed “poor sanitation in the camps” for the outbreak, although the outbreak began in the pristine small towns of St. Marc and Mirebalais that had not suffered any earthquake damage.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. To blame Haiti’s cholera outbreak on overcrowding and poor sanitation, as is routinely done in the news, is to suggest the impossible: that Vibrio cholera can spontaneously appear out of thin air though there’s been no record of cholera on the island in more than century.
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 Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Among the parasites that prey on humans, those most pernicious live in the tropics and work by proxy.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A remarkable aspect of the recent Haitian and Chilean earthquakes was the swift mobilization of military force to protect property instead of persons.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. One cannot talk about orphaned Haitian children without confronting two highly controversial and interwoven subjects: Vodou and restavek. Both are part of the very fabric of the Haitian family, which is currently under vicious attack.
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