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)
Continue reading →Haitian Filmmaker Sees Inspiration Through the Cracked Lens of Despair
By Jessica Leeder, The Globe and Mail. There are some things in Jacmel, Haiti, that the earthquake didn’t change. One is the sight of Claudel Chery, better known as Zaka, a charismatic but pensive young man with a wild mane of dreadlocks, traipsing about town with a video camera in hand.
Continue reading →Island Sounds
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.
Continue reading →The Worst-Kept Secret in Haiti: the UN’s Cruise Ship Hotel
By Staff, Terra Daily. “If the UN is living on a cruise ship, it is the perfect metaphor for how they are viewed here in the country….” Richard Morse, owner of Port-au-Prince’s iconic Hotel Oloffson.
Continue reading →Parasitism in the Tropics: The Coming Floods, Disease, and Immunity in Haiti
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 →Full Moon Over Haiti and Chile
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 →Haiti: A New U.S. Occupation Disguised as Disaster Relief?
By Arun Gupta, Z Magazine. Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief.
Continue reading →Venezuela’s Anti-Hegemonic Aid In Haiti
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 →In Haiti, More than 95,000 Patients Treated By Cuban Medical Brigade
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 →
A Valentine for My Restavek Mothers and the Stolen Children of Haiti
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 →Christian Right Kidnappers
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 →
US Group Charged With Child Trafficking in Haiti
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 →