Hurricane Matthew Devastates Haiti’s Southern Peninsula

By Kim Ives Haiti Chery Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 mph, slammed into Haiti’s southern peninsula in the early morning hours of Tuesday, October 4, 2016, leaving a swath of ripped off roofs, stripped … Continue reading →

Haïti élections: Désinformation et propagande

Par Dady Chery Haïti Chery La lutte pour Haïti est pleinement en vigueur. Depuis que les Haïtiens ont contrecarré les élections frauduleuses et ont commencé à faire leurs propres projets, l’occupation étrangère est devenue désespérée pour concocter une solution pseudo-haïtienne à … Continue reading →

Disinformation & Propaganda 101: Haiti Elections

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery The fight for Haiti is on. Since Haitians scuttled the fraudulent elections and started to make their own plans, the foreign occupation has become desperate to concoct a pseudo-Haitian solution to the electoral impasse. A disinformation campaign from mainstream … Continue reading →

Haiti’s Cite Soleil Fights Back

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery What if there were an election and nobody came? It happened in Haiti on August 9, 2015. Language fails us. Words like election, plebiscite and democracy no longer matter. If there had been a word … Continue reading →

La mise-en-scène du retour d’Aristide et le choix de sa dauphine Maryse Narcisse en Haïti

Une fois de plus, Jean-Bertrand Aristide est utilisé comme un front pour aider à légitimer le pillage d’Haïti par la communauté internationale. Le 29 et 30 septembre, tandis qu’un groupe de plus de 15 partis politiques haïtiens organisaient une série … Continue reading →

Staged Aristide Return to Push Haiti Elections

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Once again, Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s person is serving as a front to help legitimize Haiti’s pillage by the international community. On September 29 and 30, while a group of more than 15 Haitian political parties organized … Continue reading →

Human Rights Organizations: Widespread Abuse and Police Brutality in Haiti’s Ile a Vache

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery The struggle between Haiti’s peasants in Ile a Vache and the country’s executive branch is not a simple misunderstanding. The peasants have cared for and forested the offshore island to the extent that it has … Continue reading →

Mainstream Media Discover Fight for Haiti’s Ile a Vache

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. One year after a Haitian government decree to appropriate the lands of the farmers on the offshore island of Ile a Vache, and more than two months since the islanders began to take their protests to the streets, Le Nouvelliste, AP, and Reuters bring us their versions of the story: a valuable lesson in methods of disinformation.

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U.N. Uses Private Military and Security Contractors

By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans, IPS | UPDATE from Haiti Chery. The United Nations is increasingly hiring Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) for its missions across the world, raising concerns over the use of firms known for participation in human rights abuses, as well as an overall lack of accountability structures governing these contractors within the U.N. system. UPDATE 1: DynCorp boasts of having trained 400 “Haitian police” and is awarded a $48.6 million contract to insert 100 contractors and 10 advisors into the “UN police force” in Haiti.

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Help Haiti’s Farmers, End Rice Subsidies

By Jacob Kushner, Global Post | U.S. Farm Bill 2012, Develop Trade Law | Environmental Working Group | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. U.S. Farm Bill 2012 could reverse a decades-long policy of agricultural subsidies that has undercut Haiti’s local rice production.

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The Rush to Haiti’s North | La ruée vers le Nord

By Roberson Alphonse, Le Nouvelliste | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. According to Dieuseul Anglade, director of Haiti’s Office of Mines and Energy in Haiti, during the negotiations for mineral exploitation, the Haitian State will keep a close watch to ensure that Haitian citizens benefit from the country’s wealth. Meanwhile, the mayors have been dismissed, and land prices have skyrocketed. (English | French)

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Barrick in the Dominican Republic

By Staff, Protestbarrick. As the opening date approaches for the Dominican Republic’s Pueblo Viejo mine, controversy around this mega-mine has continued to grow. According to the president of Maimón’s municipal committee, the funds Barrick has transferred to the municipality are less than the costs of the damage it has caused. Community members complain that the workers in the mine are overwhelmingly foreigners. Recently Barrick was accused of blocking the performance of the protest song “De Pascua Lama” (video included) at a Dominican Festival.

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No Haitian Army Anytime Soon. How About a Militia?

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Instead of unveiling his new army on the anniversary of the Bataille de Vertieres, Martelly announced that would delay the mobilization of the Haitian army and establish a commission to study the idea. Pity… a militia system would be ideal for Haiti, if it could afford one.

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