Staff, HPN | Translated by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. “By contrast to other groups of foreign doctors, we visit citizens’ dwellings so we may assist a greater number of people with their sanitation needs.” – Emiliano Melero, coordinator of Venezuelan doctors in Haiti. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Jessica Leeder, The Globe and Mail. There are some things in Jacmel, Haiti, that the earthquake didn’t change. One is the sight of Claudel Chery, better known as Zaka, a charismatic but pensive young man with a wild mane of dreadlocks, traipsing about town with a video camera in hand.
Continue reading →By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Contracts will be granted, moneys will disappear, and spectacular scandals will ensue, but in the end, there will be no reconstruction.
Continue reading →By Staff, Terra Daily. “If the UN is living on a cruise ship, it is the perfect metaphor for how they are viewed here in the country….” Richard Morse, owner of Port-au-Prince’s iconic Hotel Oloffson.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Among the parasites that prey on humans, those most pernicious live in the tropics and work by proxy.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A remarkable aspect of the recent Haitian and Chilean earthquakes was the swift mobilization of military force to protect property instead of persons.
Continue reading →By Arun Gupta, Z Magazine. Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief.
Continue reading →By Kiraz Janicke, Venezuela Analysis. Venezuela’s main crime appears to be its non-participation in the UN coordinated “cluster system” which Adams argues “has worked fairly well” – never mind that the UN has been an occupying force in Haiti.
Continue reading →By Leticia Martínez Hernández Granma PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti.— More than 95,000 patients have been treated here to date here by the Cuban medical brigade since the January 12 earthquake, and 4,500 operations have been performed. However, as brigade coordinator Carlos Alberto … Continue reading →
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. It is Haitian Independence Day, and I am in a mood to celebrate year two-hundred and six. The stereo blasts a wild, up-tempo, tune. Haitian drums burn! As I dance, I explain to my befuddled husband that this exhuberant song is about a woman who survived a storm. She is stuck up a tree and singing that her day to die has not yet come.
Continue reading →By Staff, Focus Information Agency. President Hugo Chavez on Monday said that Petrocaribe, Venezuela’s regional energy alliance, will forgive quake-stricken Haiti’s debt.
Continue reading →By Richard Seymour, Socialist Worker. Within days of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, the U.S. government had sent thousands of 82nd Airborne troops and Marines, alongside the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson. “We are there for the long term.” – Alejandro Wolff, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Continue reading →By Mike Melia, The Independent. It wasn’t long after Tuesday’s earthquake leveled nearly all of the houses next to Dr. Surena’s that neighbors started to show up at his doorstep.
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