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)
Continue reading →By Cam McGrath, IPS. Egypt recently approved its first ever minimum wage for the private sector, bringing it in line with the minimum wage for public sector employees set at 700 Egyptian pounds (US $117) per month. “In Cairo, you’d be lucky to find a small apartment for that price. But then you have to eat, and that’s expensive too.” – A gas meter inspector. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, Cuba Debate | CCS | Translated to English by Haiti Chery. CELAC is made up of 13 member nations from the Caribbean, 13 from South America, 6 from Central America, and 1 from the southern part of North America, whose leaders have agreed to promote an organization that will form a block in addressing the world’s challenges. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Dalia Acosta, IPS. Farmers and experts on agriculture from Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique toured fields in Cuba, along with local colleagues, to exchange experiences and promote ecological fruit cultivation on Caribbean islands. “Food security is a very important issue, and these technologies can be easily taught….” – Ricot Scutt, from Haiti. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Martha Jean-Claude (lyrics, music) | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. In celebration of Dessalines, who led the decisive battle for Haiti’s Independence, the Bataille de Vertières on November 18, 1803, listen to “Mwen Gen Fòs!” by Martha Jean-Claude. (English | Spanish).
Continue reading →By Humberto Márquez, IPS. The Venezuelan government has expropriated 25 ranches to distribute 15,800 hectares (39,042 acres) to communities of Yukpa Indians in the northwest of the country who have been protesting to be returned the lands from which they had been driven. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Adriaan Alsema, Colombia Reports | By Helda Martínez, IPS | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nationwide protests are planned by Colombian students, teachers, and labor unions against a law that would allow private businesses to invest in public institutions for higher education. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Emilio Godoy, IPS. Mexico City – Local communities in Latin America should go to court more often to fight for access to drinking water, regarded as a universal right, and combine legal action with social protests and political lobbying, experts say. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Ansel Herz, IPS. Port-au-Prince – Workers in Haiti’s apparel manufacturing sector charge that factory owners are repressing attempts to organise in the capital, after the dismissals of six of seven leading members of a new union within just two weeks of its formation. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Sebastián Amaya, El Observador | Translated by Lo de alla | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The case against the five Uruguayan MINUSTAH marines, who are under investigation for assaulting a Haitian boy in Port-Salut, could be filed away because the Uruguay court says that the Haitian boy has not reported for questioning and has not filed charges in Uruguay. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →A Poem by Fina Garcia Marruz | Translated by Kathleen Weaver. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Enrique Berruga Filloy, El Universal | Translated by Brandee Bilotta, Watching America | Princeton University | Pew Research Center. For the first time in 60 years, the net traffic of Mexicans to the United States has been reduced to zero and perhaps even shows a negative balance. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Michaëlle Desrosiers and Franck Seguy, A l’Encontre | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Translated by Diaro Octubre. MINUSTAH almost exclusively attacks those who are most despised, humbled, and impoverished. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
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 →
