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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 Comes to Flint

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery What happens in Haiti doesn’t stay in Haiti. Sooner or later, it comes to places like Michigan’s Benton Harbor and Flint. Our destinies are linked. Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish aristocrat who long puppeteered United States … Continue reading →

Prison Aid to Haiti for Captive Slave Labor

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Haiti’s incarceration rate of roughly 100 prisoners per 100,000 citizens in 2016 was the lowest in the Caribbean. Nevertheless, there is a systematic campaign underway for more prisons. Canada and Norway have each given one … Continue reading →

Haiti’s G-8 Calls for Interim Consensus Government

Press release done in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 22, 2016 for the G-8 by Samuel Madistin Haiti Chery Translated from the French by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery On the indefinite postponement of the “elections of January 24, 2016”: The group of presidential candidates involved in … 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 →

Pre-Election Massacre in Cite Soleil, Haiti

More than 15 Dead in New Violence in Cité Soleil Haiti Chery via Radio Kiskeya (JMD, SPP, ETB) Translated from the French by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery More than 15 people from several Cité Soleil (north of the capital) … Continue reading →

When Will MINUSTAH Leave Haiti?

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Haitian-Born Author Dady Chery Discusses ‘We have Dared to Be Free’ With Anita Stewart – Part I

The following interview was originally broadcast on Wise Women Media on August 5, 2015 and later rebroadcast as a three-part series on Challenging the Rhetoric, on August 26-28. For the audio for the first part of the series, scroll to … Continue reading →

Doutrina Monroe Imperial Vigente: Golpes Silenciosos na América Latina, o Caso do Equador

Por Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Traduzido do inglês por Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. A estabilidade da América Latina, contudo, é a estabilidade de paciente comatoso. Começou com maciça expansão em tempo de paz de forças policiais e militares em Argentina, Brasil e Chile (ABC), começando em torno de 2004, com patrocínio das Nações Unidas. (Inglês | Português)

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Hypothesis for a New Revolution in Haiti | L’hypothèse d’une nouvelle révolution en Haïti

By Michel Ange Cadet, Haiti Chery. Revolution emanates, first and foremost from a collective consciousness. One must take stock of one’s own predicament. And this in turn forces us out of our indifference to act, so that we stop dreaming but give life to a common ideal. (English | French)

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Lessons from MLK: Call for a General Strike in Haiti | Appel à une grève générale en Haïti

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. In Haiti and everywhere, all non-violent action boils down to one principle: non-cooperation in one’s own repression. (English | French)

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Midnight of Haiti’s Parliament on the Earthquake’s Anniversary | Le minuit du parlement d’Haïti au jour de l’anniversaire du séisme

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Just as the earthquake had rattled the ground under the feet of Haitians, the dissolution of the Haitian Parliament at midnight, 00:00 on January 12, 2015, exactly five years later, has shaken to the core Haiti’s republican institutions. Right at the day’s start, the terms expired for all 99 members of the House of Representatives and 10 Senators. With only 10 members left, the Senate lacks a quorum and cannot function. (English | French)

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Dominican Republic: Haitians Strike Back on Independence Day

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. On the 211th Anniversary of Haitian Independence, January 1, 2015, some Dominican navy people must have decided to have their fun by arresting a group of Haitian fishermen in their own waters. Big mistake. The response was swift and categorical.

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Reconstitution of Haiti’s Tontons Macoutes and Their Fusion with MINUSTAH | Le retour des macoutes en Haïti pour une MINUSTAH permanente

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Paramilitary troops that are loyal to Martelly have been trained in Rafael Correa’s Ecuador. These troops are meant to be the kernel of a new Tontons Macoutes. Officially, they go by the inoffensive title of “military engineering corps.” The regime says they are based in Haiti’s Artibonite region, although they are disguised as trainees in the Police Nationale d’Haiti (PNH). (English | French)

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