Tag Archives: Switzerland

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

avatarPosted on by March 2, 2018

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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Outsourcing Customs Tax Collection in Haiti and Elsewhere

avatarPosted on by January 3, 2019

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A contract was granted under irregular circumstances by Haiti’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Marie Camelle Jean-Marie, that grants control of all customs tariffs of the Republic of Haiti to the Swiss multinational company Societe Generale de Surveillance SA (SGS), for 10 years.

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International Community Pushes for Permanent Electoral Council, New Haitian Elections

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Representatives of Haiti and the international community participated in a one-hour meeting in the National Palace on Thursday, March 1 on the urgent need to establish a Permanent Electoral Council and schedule new elections, as prescribed by the Haitian Constitution. In another meeting between the representatives of Haiti and Venezuela on March 2-3, Venezuela announced $369 million of projects including a gift of financial and technical support for a National Identification system.

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Don’t Force Statehood on Somalia

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Richard Dowden, African Arguments | Haiti Chery. “The model for Somalia is Switzerland…. Strong centralised states are the legacy of colonial rulers and unsurprisingly the inheritor governments have kept it that way.” – Richard Dowden.

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Biopiracy Leaves Native Groups Out in the Cold | Cazadores de la medicina perdida

avatarPosted on by December 28, 2018

By Humberto Márquez, IPS. Traditional Yanomami Indian medicine discovered that some fungi at the top of Venezuela’s mountains can cure many serious illnesses. These fungi will soon be a new source of the anti-cancer drug Taxol that makes $1.6 billion a year for Bristol Myers Squibb. (English | Spanish)

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Revealed – the Capitalist Network that Runs the World

avatarPosted on by March 1, 2018

By Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

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If One Could Extrapolate to One NGO Per Haitian… | Si l’on pourrait arriver à une ONG par Haïtien…

avatarPosted on by December 20, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Half of Haiti’s medical NGOs have left and more plan to shut down their cholera-treatment programs by the year’s end. And guess what? Haiti will get healthier (English | French).

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In the Heart of Europe, Undocumented Immigrants Organize

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

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.

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As Inauguration Nears, Martelly Prepares Duvalier Amnesty and Political Offensive

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Kim Ives, Haiti Analysis | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A Swiss law nicknamed Lex Duvalier, which took effect on February 1, 2011 and used Duvalier as its test case, requires Switzerland to return the funds ill-gotten by dictators under certain circumstances. If Duvalier keeps running freely around Haiti and ultimately gets pardoned, he also gets $6.2 million, courtesy of Hillary Clinton and Michel Martelly.

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