By Staff, AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Brazilian President Dilma Roussef visited Haiti for a few hours on Feb 1, 2012. She failed to deliver what she could easily have given and what Haitians wanted most: the withdrawal of the Brazilian MINUSTAH occupation troops. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | By Yaima Puig Meneses, Granma. Participants ratified Haiti’s participation as a permanent special invitee and agreed to hold the next summit of the ALBA Foreign Ministers in Jacmel, Haiti.
Continue reading →By Staff, Granma | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Cuban-led medical teams reported an entire year without a death among cholera patients they treated in Haiti. Since the start of the epidemic, a combined approach of epidemiological surveillance and community education has resulted in a 3.6 times lower death rate for the Cuban-led medics than all other medical groups working in Haiti.
Continue reading →By staff, Prensa Latina. Haiti will attend a Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA), to be held in Caracas on Sunday February 5th, merely as an observer country, contrary to earlier expectations that Haiti would join the organization. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Mongo Santamaria and an all-star band | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Fantastic version of Mongo Santamaria’s composition Sofrito, together with a recipe. This is about food and dance.
Continue reading →By Frederico Garcia Lorca, Casa Poema, Kempis, Everything2 | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Frederico García Lorca, one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the Spanish language, became Franco’s most famous victim at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Lorca’s remains might be in one of the unmarked graves that Judge Baltasar Garzon ordered exhumed as part of his probe into Spain’s fascist era. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, SPX via Terra Daily | Photos and video, Univ. Southampton and NOC | Haiti Chery. The world’s deepest undersea volcanic vent is the Cayman Trough, about 3 miles below the Cayman islands in the Caribbean. Springs, probably hotter than 450°C, shoot mineral-laden water more than 0.6 mile up into the sea. Throngs of shrimps and sea anemones live around the vents.
Continue reading →By Staff, AlterPresse | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. After their boat sank off the coast of Cuba, 45 Haitian migrants drowned; 87 were rescued on Saturday, December 24, 2011 by the Cuban Coast Guard. The small boat is estimated to have carried over 160 passengers. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Staff, Xinhua | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The release of 2,000 Cuban prisoners on the anniversary of the release of the Bay of Pigs invaders by Cuba is hardly coincidental. It is now the United State’ turn to free the Cuban 5.
Continue reading →By Patricia Grogg, IPS | Anna Ramdass, Trinidad Express. President Raúl Castro recently traveled to Trinidad and Tobago to participate in the 4th Cuba-CARICOM summit. CARICOM chairman Dr Denzil Douglas has since called on the U.S. to put an immediate end to the trade embargo against Cuba. Cuba maintains diplomatic ties with CARICOM’s 14 members, including Haiti. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, Cuba Debate | CCS | Translated to English by Haiti Chery. CELAC is made up of 13 member nations from the Caribbean, 13 from South America, 6 from Central America, and 1 from the southern part of North America, whose leaders have agreed to promote an organization that will form a block in addressing the world’s challenges. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, Haiti Libre | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Lamothe announced that the Cap Haitien International Airport will be ready in February 2013. Work on the airport will be done for $33 million, with assistance from Cuba and Venezuela.
Continue reading →By Roger Annis and Jorge Balseiro Estevez, Haiti Liberté | CHAN | Haiti Chery translation. “The Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade has treated more than 18 million cases in Haiti. We have performed 304,577 surgeries and vaccinated 1,501,076 people. We estimate the number of lives we have saved is 284,239.”- Dr. Balseiro Estevez. Gracias a Cuba! (English | French)
Continue reading →By Staff, Granma | By Will Matthews, ACLU. In the last eight years, 126 undocumented immigrants have died while in detention centers operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities. Complete ACLU detention report included.
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