Fidel’s Reflexions: Seven Days With No Cholera Deaths
By Fidel Castro Ruz Escambray Cuban Revolution leader examines the fact that no cholera deaths have been reported in Haiti during the last seven days. … Continue reading →
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Fidel’s Reflexions. Haiti: Underdevelopment and Genocide
By Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuban News Agency. Almost 40% of the sick have been looked after by members of the Cuban Medical Brigade which has 965 doctors, nurses and technicians who have managed to reduce the number of dead to less than 1 for each 100.
Continue reading →Genocide in Haiti: Carelessness or Malice?
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 →The People Rise Up in Haiti. Indict the U.N. and Government for Introducing and Distributing Cholera, and for Organizing Bogus Elections
By Staff, Haitian Truth | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Three news bulletins on the Nov 18, 2010 anniversary of the Bataille de Vertieres and the popular uprisings when Haitians learned about MINUSTAH’s importation of cholera into the country.
Continue reading →Cholera for Sale In a Blue Plastic Bag: Infected Water Distributed in Haiti as Purified
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 →Brazil and ‘Peacekeeping’: Policy, Not Altruism
By staff, The Economist. Haiti was significant not just because this was the first mission Brazil commanded, but also because it showed that the government was willing to stretch what until then had been an article of foreign-policy faith: non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs.
Continue reading →Spain Reveals Cuba’s Plan to Free All Political Prisoners
By Anita Brooks, The Independent UK. The Spanish Foreign Minister yesterday told his country’s parliament that Cuba would soon release all political prisoners and suggested that the E.U. and U.S. could respond by softening longstanding sanctions against the island nation.
Continue reading →Domestic Workers in New York Win First-Ever Job Protections
By Tiffany Ten Eyck Labor Notes Domestic workers in New York have won historic changes to the state’s labor law to include protections for their jobs. Final votes on Thursday ended weeks of wrangling between state Assembly and Senate leaders … Continue reading →
Life After Oil: Cuba Can Teach Us How to Live Without Our Dirty Fossil Fuel Addiction
By Jill Richardson Alternet A common model in Cuba is the “organipónico,” an urban farm made up of long, narrow raised beds filled with a mix of soil and composted manure or another organic material. Often, the beds are intercropped, … Continue reading →
Thai, Argentine Textile Workers Unite Against Slave Labour
By Marcela Valente, IPS. Buenos Aires – Textile cooperatives founded by former slave labourers from Argentina and Thailand will jointly launch a new brand of clothing in June to raise awareness about exploitation and promote decent jobs in the garment industry.
Continue reading →The Open Veins of Climate Change | Los derechos del hombre y la tierra
By Eduardo Galeano, Rebelion | Yes! Magazine. “Human rights and the rights of Nature are two names of the same dignity.” – Eduardo Galeano. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →Haiti: In Leogane, Venezuelan Doctors Go to the People | A Léogâne, les Médecins Vénézuéliens Vont Vers la Population
Staff, HPN | Translated by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. “By contrast to other groups of foreign doctors, we visit citizens’ dwellings so we may assist a greater number of people with their sanitation needs.” – Emiliano Melero, coordinator of Venezuelan doctors in Haiti. (English | French)
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Haiti: Consummating a U.S. Takeover
By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Contracts will be granted, moneys will disappear, and spectacular scandals will ensue, but in the end, there will be no reconstruction.
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