The Haiti Situation: An Interview With Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Interview of Jean-Bertrand Aristide With Nicolas Rossier, Z Magazine. “The Haitian people who are moving from misery to poverty with dignity should continue to move straight towards that goal. If we lose our dignity we lose everything.” J.-B. Aristide

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Genocide in Haiti: Carelessness or Malice?

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The United Nations and 42 non-governmental organizations (NGO) are asking to be paid about $600 for every Haitian to be contaminated with cholera. There is money in cholera.

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Interview With President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, by Nicolas Rossier

Interview of President Aristide with Nicolas Rossier. “When we say democracy we have to mean what we say.” Jean-Bertrand Aristide, during his forced exile in South Africa.

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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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A Valentine for My Restavek Mothers and the Stolen Children of Haiti

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. One cannot talk about orphaned Haitian children without confronting two highly controversial and interwoven subjects: Vodou and restavek. Both are part of the very fabric of the Haitian family, which is currently under vicious attack.

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Tout Moun Se Moun: The Haitian Revolution as a Permanent State of Mind

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. It is Haitian Independence Day, and I am in a mood to celebrate year two-hundred and six. The stereo blasts a wild, up-tempo, tune. Haitian drums burn! As I dance, I explain to my befuddled husband that this exhuberant song is about a woman who survived a storm. She is stuck up a tree and singing that her day to die has not yet come.

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The Humanitarian Myth

By Richard Seymour, Socialist Worker. Within days of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, the U.S. government had sent thousands of 82nd Airborne troops and Marines, alongside the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson. “We are there for the long term.” – Alejandro Wolff, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

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