By Kiraz Janicke, Venezuela Analysis. Venezuela’s main crime appears to be its non-participation in the UN coordinated “cluster system” which Adams argues “has worked fairly well” – never mind that the UN has been an occupying force in Haiti.
Continue reading →By Leticia Martínez Hernández Granma PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti.— More than 95,000 patients have been treated here to date here by the Cuban medical brigade since the January 12 earthquake, and 4,500 operations have been performed. However, as brigade coordinator Carlos Alberto … 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.
Continue reading →By Nicole Colson Socialist Worker Nicole Colson reports on the accusations against missionaries who were arrested after trying to take Haitian children out of the country–and the media’s tolerant attitude. … Continue reading →
By Bill Van Auken WSWS Ten members of a Baptist Church-affiliated “rescue” group from Idaho have been detained in Haiti, accused of child trafficking for attempting to spirit 33 Haitian children out of the country without any official permission. The … Continue reading →
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. It is Haitian Independence Day, and I am in a mood to celebrate year two-hundred and six. The stereo blasts a wild, up-tempo, tune. Haitian drums burn! As I dance, I explain to my befuddled husband that this exhuberant song is about a woman who survived a storm. She is stuck up a tree and singing that her day to die has not yet come.
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By Staff, Focus Information Agency. President Hugo Chavez on Monday said that Petrocaribe, Venezuela’s regional energy alliance, will forgive quake-stricken Haiti’s debt.
Continue reading →By Richard Seymour, Socialist Worker. Within days of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, the U.S. government had sent thousands of 82nd Airborne troops and Marines, alongside the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson. “We are there for the long term.” – Alejandro Wolff, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Continue reading →By James Ridgeway, Reader Supported News | Haiti Chery “Since the 1980s, in particular, the United States has helped turn a nation of low-tech subsistence farmers into a dumping ground for American agribusiness.”
Continue reading →By Mike Melia, The Independent. It wasn’t long after Tuesday’s earthquake leveled nearly all of the houses next to Dr. Surena’s that neighbors started to show up at his doorstep.
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