By Staff, Granma | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Cuban-led medical teams reported an entire year without a death among cholera patients they treated in Haiti. Since the start of the epidemic, a combined approach of epidemiological surveillance and community education has resulted in a 3.6 times lower death rate for the Cuban-led medics than all other medical groups working in Haiti.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Staff (jep kft gp), AlterPresse. According to Haitian Director General of the Department of Public Health and Population (MSPP), Gabriel Timothee, initial tests of a cholera vaccine will start in Haiti in February 2012 in disadvantaged areas of Port-au-Prince and the Plateau Central. Studies of the vaccination will be conducted in collaboration with Zanmi Lasante (Partners in Health, PIH) and a center called Haitian Studies of Kaposi Syndrome and Opportunistic Infections (Gheskio). (English | French)
Continue reading →By Mongo Santamaria and an all-star band | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Fantastic version of Mongo Santamaria’s composition Sofrito, together with a recipe. This is about food and dance.
Continue reading →By Frederico Garcia Lorca, Casa Poema, Kempis, Everything2 | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Frederico García Lorca, one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the Spanish language, became Franco’s most famous victim at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Lorca’s remains might be in one of the unmarked graves that Judge Baltasar Garzon ordered exhumed as part of his probe into Spain’s fascist era. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Rashid Haider, Haiti Chery | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. From the moment cholera appeared in Haiti, a group of supposed experts started to promote oral cholera vaccines for the country. Dr. Rashid Haider provides a devastating rebuttal of the most recent of such articles, which extensively quotes Paul Farmer and appeared in the January 12, 2012 issue of Scientific American.
Continue reading →Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas, Courrier Internationale | San Francisco Bay View | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Live from Haiti, Video. Emergency aid funds for Haiti were used by the U.S. mostly to pay itself. Another way to think about this story is to consider that earthquake-ravaged Haiti has become the world’s biggest aid donor per capita. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Rashid Haider, Haiti Chery | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Cholera vaccines are being pushed on Haiti, especially Shanchol, a vaccine that protects only 45 percent of those vaccinated during the first year and is unsuitable for controlling epidemic or endemic cholera. Shanchol is expensive. In addition, preparations of it for use in developing countries contain the mercury-based preservative thiomersal.
Continue reading →By Staff, AHP | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haitians leaders who participated in the CELAC summit in December 2011 have been warned by Haiti’s Foreign Ministry to behave themselves in the Organization of American States (OAS). (English | French)
Continue reading →By Staff, Defend Haiti | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. One hundred and sixty Rwandans left their country on Monday, December 26, 2011, to replace the first group of Rwandan MINUSTAH police officers, of the same number, deployed nine months before in Jeremie, a Haitian town that was not damaged by the earthquake and needs no stabilization.
Continue reading →By Staff, Yahoo | Commentary by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. If anyone still doubts Haiti’s loss of sovereignty, the fact that our country no longer makes its own beer ought to confirm it. We have some serious fixing to do.
Continue reading →By Staff, Xinhua | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The release of 2,000 Cuban prisoners on the anniversary of the release of the Bay of Pigs invaders by Cuba is hardly coincidental. It is now the United State’ turn to free the Cuban 5.
Continue reading →By Cathy Yamsuan and Kristine L. Alave, Philippine Daily Inquirer | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Two months before the recent huge loss of lives, Filipinos were warned to guard against climate change by protecting forests and improving drainage, as if a forest could indefinitely hold back the rising sea levels and more violent storms caused by the climatic changes brought on by the carbon emissions from developed countries.
Continue reading →By RNDDH Staff, Alter Presse (French) | Defend Haiti (English) | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Enough is enough. No Haitian should render MINUSTAH personnel any more service, and this should continue until we see their backs. On the night of December 13-14, 2011, Brazilian soldiers robbed, undressed, and beat nearly to death three young Haitian men, whose truck broke down after they delivered water to Cite Soleil. (English | French | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Staff (gp), AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Director General of Haitian police, Mario Andresol, says the drug traffic in Haiti has intensified, but Assistant Secretary of State for the U.S. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, William Brownfield, says the drug traffic has slowed. Nevertheless they agree that Haiti needs more weapons and militarized police. (English | French)
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