Bye-bye, MINUSTAH!
Editors’ note: Axis of Logic first published this article in English on Aug. 15, and the Bay View followed on Aug. 17. Due to requests from Haitian readers and others, Dady Chery has translated her...
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A tale of noble and ignoble scientists, Harvard and the U.N. Mis à jour avec traduction française by Dady Chery It took nearly a year since the start of Haiti’s cholera epidemic for scientists to get...
View ArticleWhat happens in Haiti doesn’t stay in Haiti
by Dady Chery The Nov. 13 attack on Brazil’s Rocinha neighborhood and its ongoing occupation by MINUSTAH-trained soldiers together with Brazilian police is a dramatic case of a peacetime merger of...
View ArticleHaiti’s elected mayors illegally replaced by presidential appointees
by Dady Chery Haiti Chery – Back in May 2011, undistracted by Haiti’s $4.5-million presidential inauguration, I sounded the alarm about a brewing legislative coup d’etat: “Within five days of being...
View ArticleThe character assassination of Samba Boukman
by Dominique Esser The long time Haitian community organizer Samba Boukman was assassinated on Friday, March 9, 2012, and major media outlets, immediately following his death, reported on Boukman as...
View ArticleParamilitary gangs join UN force in preying on Haitian population
by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery For several weeks, armed groups of young Black men, presumably Haitian and too young to be veterans of the Haitian Armed Forces (Forces Armees d’Haiti, FAd’H) disbanded in...
View ArticleMassacre at La Visite
by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery “The right to own property does not extend to the coasts, springs, rivers, water courses, mines and quarries. They are part of the State’s public domain.” – Haitian 1987...
View ArticleThe UN’s cholera epidemic in Haiti
Time to clean up one of the UN’s biggest crimes by Mark Weisbrot Haitians have had a long and arduous struggle just to achieve the rights that most people in the rest of the hemisphere have enjoyed....
View ArticleResistance to Martelly regime grows in Haiti
by Ben Terrall Haitian President Michel Martelly has managed to inspire popular opposition to his regime almost since his election in May 2011. Martelly, who came to office in a grossly...
View ArticleUPDATE: Haitians protect Aristide from attack on Lavalas
by Malaika Kambon In what is clearly a continuation of the Feb. 29, 2004, U.S. instigated coup d’etat against Haiti, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been called before Martelly’s...
View ArticleEcuador and Brazil training new Haitian army
by Charlie Hinton The Feb. 29, 2004, kidnapping and coup d’état began a brutal ongoing U.S.-U.N. occupation that aimed to suppress Haiti’s people’s movement and roll back the hard-won democratic gains...
View Article15 US lawmakers ask Haiti Senate to make way for mock elections
Open letter from the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) regarding the Sept. 15 U.S. Congressional letter addressed to the Haiti Senate urging it to clear the path for another round of mock...
View ArticleEt tu, Brute? Haiti’s betrayal by Latin America
by Dady Chery Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff reviews U.N. troops in Haiti. – Photo: Blog do Planalto For the 10th year since the forcible removal of elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
View ArticleFive years later: Haitians step up their fight for independence and democracy
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View ArticleFact finding delegation reports an electoral coup now in process in Haiti
Every vote must count; Black lives matter in Haiti too by Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Committee; Yvon Kernizan, Haitian Human Rights Campaigner; Margaret Prescod, journalist and Global Women’s...
View ArticleDefiant Haiti: ‘We won’t let you steal these elections!’
Hooded gangs attack protest march as police turn a blind eye by Dave Welsh Supporters of Fanmi Lavalas party presidential candidate Dr. Maryse Narcisse protest recent preliminary election results in...
View ArticleHaiti rises: a time for solidarity
by Nia Imara and Robert Roth “Reflecting on struggles everywhere, we came to the conclusion that a people can’t be sovereign if they don’t have the right to vote. No people can retain their dignity if...
View ArticleHaiti’s Election Verification Commission a step in the right direction
by Marilyn Langlois Graffiti in Jacmel: “Electoral coup d’état = revolution” – Photo: Marilyn Langlois On a visit to Haiti in late April with Task Force on the Americas, a California-based organization...
View ArticleHaiti’s Fanmi Lavalas and the Black Panther Party
by Kiilu Nyasha This year of 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, October 1966, in Oakland, California. Attorney Charles Garry, Kiilu Nyasha,...
View ArticleCaribbean power bloc forms to challenge Trump’s war mongering and climate...
by Gerald A. Perreira, Organization for the Victory of the People (OVP), Guyana The relatively small but independent nations of the Caribbean, having survived the worst hurricane season ever, their...
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