Clinton’s IHRC Commission Declared a Fraud by Haiti’s Senate

By Staff, AHP | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Haitian Senate Public Works Committee says that the Clinton-led Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) claims to have financed for the Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communication, had actually been funded by donors like the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank , before the IHRC was even formed. (English | French)

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Fertile Land Seized for New Sweatshop Zone | Un déficit d’information publique sur le parc industriel du nord

By Sylvestre Fils Dorcilus, Alter Presse. “It’s the most fertile area we have at Caracol…. It’s inconceivable and unacceptable that the government could choose this part of the land to set up an industrial park.” – Resident Renel Pierre (English | French)

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A Prefab Parliament, Prefab President, and Prefab Constitution for Occupied Haiti

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Michel Martelly’s inauguration on May 14, 2011 should have brought into effect a new US-written constitution for Haiti, with amendments of over one third of all the Articles in the country’s 1987 Constitution.

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Declaration on Haiti by Cuban FM Bruno Rodriguez | Bruno Rodríguez en ONU: ‘La reconstrucción de Haití es tarea pendiente’

By Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, Cuban News Agency, Radio Cubana | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The so-called Mission for U.N. Stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH) wants to recast itself as a development mission. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez spoke up in defense of Haitian self determination and against this attempt to turn Haiti into a U.N. protectorate. (English | Spanish)

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U.S. Military Convoy To Seal Haiti’s Elections

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “American military will not be sent to Haiti in advance of the election results,” U.S. embassy speaker Jon Pietchowski answered last Friday when confronted with rumors that U.S. soldiers were en route to Haiti to enforce security on the announcement of the presidential and legislative election results.

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Annul Haiti’s Second-Round Elections!

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti, it seems, would hardly need a parliament, with the world community toasting the smooth elections, and Mr. Martelly on course to resolve his housing problems. The Haitians who stayed away from the polls beg to differ. A popular slogan is: “There was no first round, so there can be no second round.”

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Should We Care About the Return of Haiti’s Idiot Son, Jean-Claude Duvalier?

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti got its idiot son Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1972. He was never elected president: not even by a fraudulent count. He was inaugurated “President for Life” one year after the death of his father François Duvalier. This event was feted by the international community with the return of aid to Haiti after a decade’s hiatus.

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Haiti: A Six-Month Report Without Cute Baby Pictures or Demands for Aid Money

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Aid money comes with strings attached, and perhaps the most pernicious strings of all have been the projects to depopulate Haiti of its youngest citizens. Over 1,100 children were removed from Haiti to the U.S., on U.S. aircrafts and from a U.S.-controlled airport, immediately after the earthquake.

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The Battle in Haiti for a Town Called Ganthier: Complicity of NGOs in a Land Grab

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A wealthy man in the Ganthier area is accused of expropriating over 9,000 acres of land coveted by various NGOs and selling the majority of this land to high-level members of the police force, former ministers, a former representative of Ganthier in Haiti’s parliament, and the wife of the current Minister.

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Grand Projects Versus the People!

By Staff, Haiti Progres | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Only Port-au-Prince matters to the reconstruction effort, so there is no use for the parliament, which was dissolved in April 2010 to make way for a Clinton-led colonial coalition called the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC). (English | French)

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In Haiti, the Rains and Repression Start in Earnest

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Despite all the donors conferences and talk of elections, little has changed in the past five months for Haiti’s homeless and dispossessed, apart from the start of the heavy rains and an increasing repression of their freedom of speech and assembly.

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U.N. Clash With Frustrated Students Spills Into Camps

By Ansel Herz, IPS | Media Hacker. UN troops responded to a rock-throwing demonstration by university students in front of a homeless camp Monday evening with a barrage of tear gas ganisters, flash grenades, and rubber bullets that injured women and children in the camp.

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Bill Clinton’s Dictatorship in Haiti

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Things haven’t cooled down in Haiti. Quite the contrary. They’re just starting to simmer.

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