By Deena Stryker, Daily Kos. In Iceland the financial crisis resulted in people recovering their sovereign rights through a new approach to direct participatory democracy that led to a new Constitution. (English | French | Portuguese | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Julio Godoy, IPS | Tierramérica. Common cranes normally migrated in September from their spring and summer habitat in Europe to spend the autumn and winter in northern Africa. But climate change is altering their natural migratory patterns, sparking conflicts between farmers and environmentalists. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Patricia Grogg, IPS | Anna Ramdass, Trinidad Express. President Raúl Castro recently traveled to Trinidad and Tobago to participate in the 4th Cuba-CARICOM summit. CARICOM chairman Dr Denzil Douglas has since called on the U.S. to put an immediate end to the trade embargo against Cuba. Cuba maintains diplomatic ties with CARICOM’s 14 members, including Haiti. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Roger Annis and Jorge Balseiro Estevez, Haiti Liberté | CHAN | Haiti Chery translation. “The Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade has treated more than 18 million cases in Haiti. We have performed 304,577 surgeries and vaccinated 1,501,076 people. We estimate the number of lives we have saved is 284,239.”- Dr. Balseiro Estevez. Gracias a Cuba! (English | French)
Continue reading →By Staff of Prensa Latina, Cadena Agramonte, and Juventud Rebelde. Cuban companies cannot sell over 30 products to small and medium companies in the U.S. because of anti-Cuban White House policies.
Continue reading →By Fidel Castro Ruz, CubaDebate via Granma. Those countries are attempting to monopolize technologies and markets by means of patents, banks, the most modern and costly forms of transportation, cybernetic domination of complex productive processes, and the control of communications and the mass media, in order to deceive the world.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (English, French) | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. MINUSTAH’s worst crime so far is killing over 8,000 Haitians with cholera. It is a degraded, degrading, and unwanted occupation force that must go. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By FIS/MP, MercoPress. A team of marine scientists urge an end to most commercial fishing in the deep sea and instead recommend fishing in more productive and local waters. The only question is: whose productive local waters.
Continue reading →Haiti Progres | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The original Venezuelan flag was designed in Jacmel, Haiti, and carried by Miranda to Venezuela. Ten years later, Simon Bolivar would lead two expeditions from Haiti to Venezuela to fight for independence from Spain. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Dan La Botz, Labor Notes. Undocumented Latino immigrants in Switzerland are battling many of the same issues as in the United States, and they’re organizing to call for creative solutions to common problems.
Continue reading →David Cole, The Nation. Judge Baltasar Garzón has reliably insisted on accountability for human rights violations, invoking the principle of “universal jurisdiction” for especially egregious crimes. He faces several politically motivated criminal prosecutions for his decisions.
Continue reading →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)
Continue reading →Film by Clifford Pierre, Ray Sykes, Charlie Steiner on the Haitian Revolution: the world’s only successful slave revolt.
Continue reading →Renewal 4 Haiti recipe | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Throughout their reign of terror, the French forbade Haitians from drinking pumpkin soup (soup joumou), then considered to be a delicacy too sophisticated for a slave’s palate. As a symbol of freedom, Haitians everywhere have cooked a bottomless pot of pumpkin soup and celebrated our Independence Day by sharing this soup every January 1st since 1804. Happy Independence Day!
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