Tag Archives: Dominican Republic

U.S. and Dominican Republic Killing Haitian Organic Egg, Poultry Production | L’importation massive d’œufs et de volailles inquiète les productrices et producteurs au Plateau Central

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Ronel Odatte (kft and rc), AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Small farmers from Haiti’s Central Plateau are losing their livelihood due to a massive influx of eggs and poultry from abroad; likewise farmers of freshwater fish from the same region are being driven to bankruptcy by a massive and incessant influx of fish from the Dominican Republic and U.S. (English | French)

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Lolita in the Dominican Republic

avatarPosted on by December 14, 2018

By Staff, Diario Libre | Humberta, Diaspora Women | Editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Dominican Republic has the highest percentage of pregnant adolescents of all Latin American and Caribbean countries. According to the Statistical Yearbook of Public Health, there were 118,730 births in 2011, 60% of them to mothers under 18 years old. Moreover, 40% of these births were by Caesarian section. Instead of confronting these problems, Dominicans have focused on Haitian births.

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Sandino: Beyond Borrowed Masks, True Identity | Sandino : el abandono del disfraz a favor de la identidad

avatarPosted on by June 14, 2019

By Toni Solo, Tortilla con Sal, Haiti Chery | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Imperialist collaborators take pride in the degree to which they can assume the posture and mask of the oppressor. The predecessors of Augusto Cesar Sandino and inheritors of his legacy make it possible to shed those masks. (English | Spanish)

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

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

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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Charlemagne Peralte: Haitian Hero, ‘Supreme Bandit’ of First US Occupation – Part III

avatarPosted on by July 28, 2022

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “These Southerners have found Haiti to be the veritable promised land of ‘jobs for deserving democrats’…. In Port-au-Prince many of them live in fine villas. Many of them who could not keep a hired girl in the United States have a half-dozen servants. All of the civilian heads of departments have automobiles furnished at the expense of the Haitian Government… It is interesting to see with what disdain, as they ride around, they look down upon the people who pay for the cars.” – James Weldom Johnson

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Charlemagne Peralte: Haitian Hero, ‘Supreme Bandit’ of First US Occupation – Part II

avatarPosted on by July 28, 2022

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Charlemagne Peralte organized the Cacos after escaping his enslavement by the U.S. occupation. The revolutionary Cacos soon grew to thousands of guerillas, including many Dominicans won over by Peralte to the anti-imperialist cause, and a provisional Caco government was declared in northern Haiti.

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Dominican Republic Builds Cross-Mountain Highways But No City Storm Drains and Bridges

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Staff, Dominican Today | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As the Dominican Republic’s flooded Santiago province erupted in protest about a poorly-built bridge and a scarcity of functional storm drains during the recent rains, the country’s President, Leonel Fernandez, celebrated the ground breaking for a $293 M inter-mountains road.

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Barrick in the Dominican Republic

avatarPosted on by February 22, 2018

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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Poor Little Rich Haiti to Be Fleeced of Copper-Silver-Gold Via Caracol Deep-Water Port

avatarPosted on by July 30, 2022

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Plans are under way for Canadian and US corporations to mine Haiti’s northeast area near Caracol, which has been discovered to contain a wealth of silver and gold, in addition to copper. As in the Dominican Republic’s Pueblo Viejo project, construction of the mines will involve dynamiting of mountains, and the ore will be extracted by an opencast (or open-pit) mining process that contaminates large volumes of water with cyanide. UPDATES: Attempts to issue mining permits to the US’ VCS Mining LLC and Canada’s SOMINE SA, without any environmental impact assessment (EIA) were thwarted by Haiti’s Senate in January 2013. Plans to dredge a deep-sea port in the pristine Bay of Fort Liberte were scrapped in April 2014.

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International Community Pushes for Permanent Electoral Council, New Haitian Elections

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Representatives of Haiti and the international community participated in a one-hour meeting in the National Palace on Thursday, March 1 on the urgent need to establish a Permanent Electoral Council and schedule new elections, as prescribed by the Haitian Constitution. In another meeting between the representatives of Haiti and Venezuela on March 2-3, Venezuela announced $369 million of projects including a gift of financial and technical support for a National Identification system.

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Over 15,000 Haitians Repatriated from Dominican Republic in 2011

avatarPosted on by January 1, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Authorities in the Dominican Republic repatriated over 15,000 Haitian nationals in 2011. Individual interviews by the Support Group for Repatriated and Refugees GARR uncovered a pattern of sudden removals, sometimes at night: practices that disregard a Memorandum of Agreement on Repatriation Mechanisms signed by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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Globally Threatened Seabird Found Nesting in La Selle Mountains, Haiti: First Ever Chick Photos, Video | Las primeras imágenes captadas de un pichón dan esperanza a un ave marina amenazada del Caribe

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Staff, Bird Life International | Groupo Jaragua | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Black-capped Petrel is a Globally Threatened bird species with a population estimated at 1,000 breeding pairs. With support from Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology, a Haitian-Dominican field team found several individuals in Haiti’s Massif de la Selle. (English | Spanish)

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USGS: Haiti, Dominican Republic Might Be Entering Seismic Cycle | Haïti et la République Dominicaine face à un nouveau cycle sismique

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Staff (kft, rc), AlterPresse. A study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) suggests that Haiti’s January 12, 2010 earthquake might represent the start of a new seismic cycle for the Enriquillo fault system, and the island might suffer strong earthquakes in coming years (English | French).

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Haitians Emigrating to Brazil Undocumented

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

iBy Staff, Listín Diario | By Najla Passos, Carta Maior | Translated from Spanish and Portuguese by David Holmes Morris for lo-de-alla. Some 500 undocumented Haitian immigrants entered the Brazilian city of Brasileia, in the last three days of 2011. The illegal entry might have been dangerous and mediated by human traffickers. On Feb 2, 2012, during a visit to Haiti, Brazilian President Dilma Rousef said her country would grant Haitians 1,200 visas per year for the next five years. (English | Spanish | Portuguese)

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