By Saul Landau, Institute for Policy Studies. Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. This documentary explains what the Cuban Five actually did and why they should be freed.
Continue reading →Haiti Progres | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The original Venezuelan flag was designed in Jacmel, Haiti, and carried by Miranda to Venezuela. Ten years later, Simon Bolivar would lead two expeditions from Haiti to Venezuela to fight for independence from Spain. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Staff Writers, SPX via Terra Daily. A team of geologists found lavas on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola – home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic – that suggest the area is underlain by rocks almost a billion years older than previously believed.
Continue reading →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)
Continue reading →By William Blum, Consortium News. The U.S. government’s half-century campaign to discredit and destroy Cuba’s experiment with socialism has had many ruthless aspects, but perhaps none more so than efforts to disparage and damage the Caribbean island’s widely admired health-care system.
Continue reading →Editorial, Granma. In the war against Libya, Washington is simultaneously pursuing several objectives: taking control of oil, protecting the safety of Israel, preventing the liberation of the Arab world, hindering African unity, and setting up NATO as Africa’s watchdog.
Continue reading →By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives The Nation Préval’s dramatic inauguration day oil deal won high marks from many Haitians, who had demonstrated against high oil prices and the lack of electricity. But it ushered in a multiyear geopolitical battle … Continue reading →
By Dan La Botz, Labor Notes. Undocumented Latino immigrants in Switzerland are battling many of the same issues as in the United States, and they’re organizing to call for creative solutions to common problems.
Continue reading →By Jason Palmer, BBC. “Amondawa people, like any other people, can talk about events and sequences of events…. What we don’t find is a notion of time as being independent of the events which are occuring.” Dr. Chris Sinha.
Continue reading →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.
Continue reading →David Cole, The Nation. Judge Baltasar Garzón has reliably insisted on accountability for human rights violations, invoking the principle of “universal jurisdiction” for especially egregious crimes. He faces several politically motivated criminal prosecutions for his decisions.
Continue reading →By mh, rab, ycf, msl, Prensa Latina. In a statement published in the Monday edition of Granma newspaper, the Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the muders of Moammar Gaddafi’s son and grandchildren. Seif al Arab Kadafi, 29, and the three children were killed by NATO in an airstrike.
Continue reading →By Fidel Castro Ruz, Granma. One can be in agreement or not with Gaddafi’s political ideas, but nobody has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and a member of the United Nations.
Continue reading →By Milagros Salazar, IPS. The Andean titi monkey (Callicebus oenanthe) has found refuge in a tiny slice of forest in San Martín, Peru, preserved by one woman. (English | Spanish)
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