Paramilitary gangs join UN force in preying on Haitian population

May 12, 2012

by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery

Members of the dissolved Haitian army parade at Camp Lamantin, a former military base in Port-au-Prince. – Photo: Ramon Espinosa, AP
For several weeks, armed groups of young Black men, presumably Haitian and too young… Read the rest »

Haiti’s food crisis: Imposing hunger on the people of Haiti

August 10, 2008

In Haiti, they have a name for hunger. It’s called Clorox hunger – meaning something that eats you from the inside. But it’s an imposed hunger, an imposed starvation on the people of Haiti. It has a history. Until the 1980s, Haiti was self sufficient in rice production. But with the lowering of tariffs, Haitians got what we call “Miami” rice. Haiti was flooded with cheap rice imports and Haitian peasants couldn’t compete.