Par Fidel Castro | Cuba Debate, Haiti Chery. “Moi qui ai abordé bien souvent des problèmes difficiles dans de longs discours… j’ai du mal à m’expliquer comment ce militaire d’origine modeste, mais à l’esprit agile et au talent sans pareil, a été capable d’un tel déploiement d’éloquence sans perdre la voix ni ses forces.” (Français | Espagnol)
Continue reading →By Aaron Swartz | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations….” – Swartz
Continue reading →By Staff (ELR), GMA News | YouTube. Category 5 Typhoon Bopha made landfall in the southern Philippines’ Mindanao area — a region seldom affected by cyclones — with sustained winds of about 160 mph early on Tuesday December 4. The storm, locally called Pablo, has killed dozens, stranded thousands, and displaced tens of thousands of people.
Continue reading →By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. MLK could easily have built a movement to supply food, blankets, and diapers to needy African Americans. Decades later, as climate change exacerbates life for those already on the edge, the arguments are the same: do we put a band-aid over the lash wounds, or do we stop those who administer the beatings?
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The great majority of Haitians categorically reject the UN force, and Haiti’s Senate passed a resolution in September 2011 that called for withdrawal of the troops by October 2012. Nevertheless, the groundwork is once again carefully laid for renewal of the UN mandate. With a yearly budget of more than half a billion dollars at stake, the disregard for democracy is total. (English | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Staff, UPI via The Argentina Independent | MSN Noticias. The Federal Court of Mar del Plata, Argentina, handed out convictions to 14 retired Argentine military and police officers. Six of these were life sentences to the retired officers, including former General Alfredo Arrillaga, for crimes against humanity during the last dictatorship.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Thirty six commandos from Haiti’s Departmental Unit for Maintenance of Order (UDMO), together with presidentially-appointed regional and local government representatives, arrived in La Visite Park, near the southern city of Jacmel, to evict 142 families by force on July 23, 2012. In the battle that ensued, 4-12 people were killed.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Alan Blueford’s parents were forced to organize a press conference to demand the police and coroner’s reports that had not still not been released to them over two months after their son was shot to death by an Oakland Police Officer.
Continue reading →By David Swanson/Douglas Ou-ee-ii-jay-ii Jack, War Is a Crime. The great majority of Canadians are unaware of their status as world leaders in activities such as mine development, energy development, deforestation, consumerism, and weapons sales.
Continue reading →By Staff (spp), Radio Kiskeya | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. In two incidents on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday July 7, angry citizens lynched three suspected robbers before burning their bodies with lit tires. (English | French | Kreyol)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | David Gardner, Mail Online. The worldwide decline in honeybee populations and so-called colony-collapse disorder (CCD) is alternately blamed on the unpredictability of flowering by many plants due to climate change, the ravages of new pesticides, parasitic mites and, more recently, the viruses harbored by these mites. Were it not for some spectacular traffic accidents in recent years, we would not know about the lucrative business, since the 1990’s, of trucking bees by the tens of millions for agribusiness.
Continue reading →By Linda Melvern, Liberation | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Belgian peacekeeper Yves Teyssier testified that the night before the April 6, 1994 attack he was blocked by the Rwandan army from entering the Camp Kanombe area, and the next day he heard a UN colleague’s voice report on UN radio that two missiles were fired at president Habyarimana’s plane from the camp. (English | French)
Continue reading →Report, Interamerican Development Bank via Relief Web | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti chery. Land tenure informality has been an obstacle to grabbing Haitian lands for use by big agricultural, mining, and power companies. Cambodia has undergone a process of mapping of land ownership similar to one proposed for Haiti. The land grabs and killings have begun in Cambodia. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Davey D, Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner Blog | twitter: @alyssa011968 | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. At a town hall meeting in Oakland about the shooting of 18-year old Alan Blueford, attendees turned their backs on what they perceived to be lies from the police chief. A bullhorn called “Justice!” and got the response “For Alan Blueford.” Chris Moreland, the man who spoke into the bullhorn, is in jail on trumped up charges.
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