Haiti Chery

Charlemagne Peralte: Haitian Hero, ‘Supreme Bandit’ of First US Occupation – Part I

Dady Chery — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:30:56 +0000

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. After more than a century sailing along as an independent black nation, Haiti collided with the Monroe Doctrine in the person of U.S. kingmaker Roger L. Farnham in 1915. He soon met his match in Haitian hero Charlemagne Peralte.

Rights Groups: Stop Deportations of Haitians from U.S.

Dady Chery — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Interview of Drew Aiken, Defend Haiti | stophaitideportations.org | Press TV, YouTube. The U.S. has resumed the deportation of about 50 Haitians per month to Haiti since January 2011. Some of the deportees get detained in Haiti, including 34 year-old Wildrick Guerrier who died in prison of cholera. Many deportees have medical conditions for which they cannot get care or have U.S.-citizen children in the States whom they cannot support. Human Rights groups are calling for a consideration of humanitarian factors and a stop to the deportations.

Dominican Republic Building Cross-Mountain Highways But No City Storm Drains and Bridges

Dady Chery — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:30:47 +0000

By Staff, Dominican Today | Editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As the Dominican Republic's flooded Santiago province erupted in protest against a poorly-built bridge and a scarcity of functional storm drains during the recent rains, the country's President Leonel Fernandez celebrated the ground breaking for a U.S. $293 M inter-mountains road that is part of grander plan for highway construction throughout the country.

George Gershwin’s ‘Cuban Overture’

Dady Chery — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:00:23 +0000

By Josefina Ortega, Granma | YouTube | Haiti Chery. George Gershwin was infatuated with Cuban rhythms. During a 1932 visit to the island, he was taken to a Havana radio station where the Ignacio Piñeiro Septet was broadcasting a live performance. He immediately struck up a friendship with Piñeiro and took some musical notations of his works. The ideas for the Cuban Overture were thus born.

Rush for Latin American Gold Being Stemmed, Many Projects On Hold

Dady Chery — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:30:20 +0000

By Staff, Terra Daily (AFP) | Haiti Chery. Latin America accounts for 45 percent of global copper production, 50 percent of silver and 20 percent of gold. But several commercial mining projects have been put on hold in Chile, Peru and Argentina, as local communities have fought for their rights to prior consultation under the International Labor Organization's Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention.

UN Soldiers Accused of Rape By Haitian Youth in Uruguayan Court

Dady Chery — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:45:48 +0000

By staff, AHP | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | AlJazeera, YouTube. Nineteen year-old Johnny Jean from Port-Salut was heard on Thursday May 10 by Uruguayan Judge Guido Alejandro. Jean identified in court the soldiers he accuses of having raped him in a Port Salut base of the U.N. Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). (English | French)

Haitian MPs Who Support Mayors’ Dismissal Will Get Community Development Funds

Dady Chery — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:30:51 +0000

By Gerard Maxineau, Le Nouvelliste | Editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The National Federation of Haitian Mayors (FENAMH) has fingered the executive and some lawmakers as having recently drafted a plan to dissolve 140 municipal councils and replace them with municipal boards at the service of the parliamentarians, but this plan was drafted abroad in the prefab constitution that came along with Haiti's prefab president and its prefab parliament exactly one year ago. It is a plan especially designed to grab lands in northern Haiti.

Venezuelan Labor Law a Landmark That Promotes Dignified Existence, National Sovereignty

Dady Chery — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:00:01 +0000

By Tamara Pearson and Staff, Venezuelanalysis. Venezuela passed a spectacularly progressive labor law on April 30th that is consistent with work's main objectives being: "to overcome forms of capitalist exploitation, as well as... guarantee economic independence, satisfy human needs, through the just distribution of wealth, and create material, social, and spiritual conditions that allow for the family to be the fundamental space for the integral development of people."

Theory of Degrowth Questions Validity of Extractive Economy

Dady Chery — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:30:31 +0000

By Marcela Valente, Tierramerica | Rebelion. A number of Latin American countries have achieved economic growth by an extractivist model of production that increases the gross domestic product (GDP) at the cost of the intensive use of gradually exhausted natural resources such as: large-scaling mining with cyanide to cause major environmental impacts, or monoculture plantations for export, at the expense of diversified rural production.

Trayvon Martin’s Mom: Call Your Governor On Mother’s Day

Dady Chery — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:00:36 +0000

By Sybrina Fulton, Justice for Trayvon and Global Grind, YouTube | Stephen C. Webster, Raw Story. For Mother’s Day, Sybrina Fulton asks the U.S. public to spare other mothers her grief by calling the governors of their states and urging them to reconsider laws like the one cited by the man who killed her son Trayvon Martin. Includes link to drop down scorecard with status of each state on “Stand Your Ground” law.

Financial Enslavement of West Africans By France

Dady Chery — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:30:18 +0000

By Antoine Roger Lokongo, Pambazuka News. Francophone Africans from 14 countries deposit 65% of their hard currencies yearly into the French Treasury, without French nationality nor access to the public goods and services available to French taxpayers. Close to 1,500 billion CFA francs (Communauté Financière d'Afrique common currency) generated from the surplus of West African states' foreign reserves are placed on the foreign stock markets and out of the reach of the Africans who own the money. In addition the French force money payments, like an Ivory Coast compensation for the recent war.

Agricultural Sector Could Boost Development

Dady Chery — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:30:04 +0000

By Nocles Debreus, Le Matin | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti's agricultural sector creates 50% of the country's employment overall and 80% in rural areas. Agronomist Phito Blémur and many others believe that policies toward development and poverty reduction must take into account the vital role this sector played immediately after Independence when it accounted for 95% of the GDP (instead of the current 26%). Revival of this sector will require a departure from neoliberalism and the establishment of serious fiscal and monetary policies.