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Brazil’s Military Dictatorship: Bolsonaro’s Godfather Is Home from Haiti to Roost

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery It is bittersweet to be right about my prediction that the occupation of Haiti by Brazil would destroy its democracy. The real power behind the far-right congressman and former army captain, Jair Bolsonaro, who will … Continue reading →

Dilma Rousseff, do Brasil: Não Golpe, e sim Reparação por causa de Corrupção Sistêmica

Por Dady Chery e Gilbert Mercier Haiti Chery Traduzido por Murilo Leme Em votação pública aberta, a câmara baixa do Brasil votou esmagadoramente em 17 de abril de 2016 pelo impeachment de Dilma Rousseff. Os votos, 367 favoráveis a impeachment, em contraste com 137 … Continue reading →

Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff: Not a Coup but Payback for Systemic Corruption

By Dady Chery and Gilbert Mercier Haiti Chery In a public open vote, Brazil’s lower house voted overwhelmingly on April 17, 2016 to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. The tally of 367 for impeachment, as opposed to 137 against and 7 … Continue reading →

Adyjeangardy Gets International History Prize for ‘History of Haiti’s Arawak Indians’

By Amos Cincir, Omega World News | Haiti Chery. Translated by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. Historian and career journalist Ady Jean-Gardy, or Adyjeangardy, was awarded the French Academy Institute of Arts and Letters International History Prize during the weekend of May 2-3, 2015 for his work, “Histoires des Indiens Arawaks d’Haiti” (History of Haiti’s Arawak Indians). (English | French)

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Biodiversity and Sustainability Closely Linked to Language and Culture

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As linguistic and culturally diversity disappear, so too does biological diversity. This is because the world’s indigenous cultures know best how to create the conditions to maintain species and keep ecosystems functioning in areas where humans also live.

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A Poem by D. H. Lawrence: Snake

By D. H. Lawrence | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | D. H. Lawrence is best known for his novels and the persecution he endured for them, but he also wrote some 800 equally subversive poems. His 1923 collection “Birds, Beasts and Flowers” is a contemplation of the natural world and man’s relation to it.

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Documentary Film Declares War on Belo Monte Dam

By Glen H. Shephard, Notes from the Ethnoground. Brazilian filmmaker André D’Elia has declared war on the controversial hydroelectric dam along the Xingu river in the new film Belo Monte: Anúncio de uma Guerra (Belo Monte: Declaration of War).

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Amazon Rainforest Gets Half Its Nutrients From Tiny Spot in Sahara | Saúde da floresta amazônica

By Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic | Staff, Amazonia News. About 40 million tons of dust are transported annually from the Sahara to the Amazon basin. This represents half of the annual mineral supply that fertilizes the Amazon basin. Thus the health and productivity of the Amazon rainforest depends on a supply of dust from Africa. (English | Portuguese)

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Dialogue Between Amazon Rainforest and Water | Decifrado diálogo entre selva amazônica e água

By Alice Marcondes, Tierramerica via IPS | Envolverde. Phenomena that alter the Amazon ecosystem also strongly affect the release of gases from the rivers. When the temperature rises, the emission of gases accelerates. – Paulo Artaxo. (English | Portuguese)

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Lessons from the Indigenous on Promoting Plant Biodiversity

By Jan Salick, Missouri Botanical Garden | Staff, e! Science News. Mountains are considered sacred by both the Yanesha of the upper Peruvian Amazon and Tibetans of the Himalayas. They excel in promoting plant biodiversity. For example, the Yanesha grow over 200 varieties of cassava.

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Native Protesters Celebrate Law Cancelling Rainforest Road

By Franz Chávez, IPS. LA PAZ – With victory cheers and predictions of future campaigns in defense of their ancestral territory, indigenous protesters from Bolivia’s Amazon jungle region celebrated the new law that banned the construction of the road through their rainforest reserve.

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