Haiti Still Pays the Price for Having Fought Slavery

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery One would think that, now that the despised 14-year long United Nations Mission for the (de)Stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH) has been forced to shut down, Haiti would be on the road to some modest, sustained, … Continue reading →

Water for Profit: Haiti’s Thirsty Season

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery There is no shortage of water in Haiti. Yet, everywhere on the island, Haitians travel for miles to get water, pay dearly for it if they can find it, and sometimes die on their journey … Continue reading →

Haïti: La propagation du choléra et la quête de l’argent par l’ONU

Par Dady Chery Haiti Chery Les Nations Unies ont causé 10 000 décès et 700 000 infections de choléra après le tremblement de terre désastreux d’Haïti du 12 Janvier 2010. Dans ce contexte c’est logique qu’une association continue avec l’ONU, … Continue reading →

Haiti’s Cholera Spreading, Money Grubbing, United Nations Plague

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery If the United Nations caused 10,000 deaths and 700,000 cholera infections after Haiti’s January 12, 2010 disastrous earthquake, then it stands to reason that a continued association with the UN after six years of inaction … Continue reading →

Haiti: Enough Is Enough, Bring on the Revolution!

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Ask Haitians on the street why they have put their wiry bodies in the paths of the bullets and tear-gas canisters of Haiti’s various mercenary forces, foreign and domestic, and they will tell you it … Continue reading →

Assault on Journalists: The Case of Haiti

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery According to the International News Safety Institute (INSI), over 100 journalists were killed in 2015, many of them by assassins. However shocking this number might be, it merely gives a glimpse into the savagery that … 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 →

Dady Chery and Eric Draitser Discuss Imperialism and Colonialism in Haiti

Interview of Dady Chery with Eric Draitser Haiti Chery Eric Draitser: Today I have the amazing special opportunity to speak to someone whom I really admire, really respect, whose work I follow regularly, and I think we’re all going to … Continue reading →

Dady Chery Discusses Haiti’s Struggle Against Occupation with Ruthann Amarteifio

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Ruthann Amarteifio: It has been a long time. So Dady, you have been writing a book called We Have Dared to Be Free, for five years. Before the dreadful earthquake in Haiti in 2010, you … Continue reading →

The Clinton Plan for Haiti

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery When news of Haiti died down in the mainstream media two months after the earthquake, things had not cooled down: quite the contrary, they had just started to simmer. A highly controversial State of Emergency … Continue reading →

Dessalines’ Ideal of Equality for Haiti

By Michel-Ange Cadet Haiti Chery The last clouds of smoke dissipate after the deafening sounds of cannons at Vertières. Bodies, bruised, bloodied, are spread out on the road. Streams of bloods mix with the torrential rains and flow to the … Continue reading →

Dominicans Are Not Haiti’s Enemies, Corruption and Occupation Are

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery We love blood, don’t we? As if, by staring at our reflections in this viscous red liquid we might lose fear. We are horrified and entranced by the eviscerated child in Gaza, or the naked … Continue reading →