For everyone, 2021 was an extremely tumultuous year, one that saw me leave Puerto Rico for a (temporary) exile in Pennsylvania, two countries dear to me, Haiti and Cuba, erupt for very different reasons and a failed coup d'état in my home country of the United States.
I hope that a more just, gentle and humane year awaits us in 2022. I hope that Syrians living under government and Russian bombardment in Idlib or in exile in places like Turkey remain safe. I hope that the people of Afghanistan both in the country and scattered around the world due to a disastrous decision implemented by two successive U.S. administrations are able to begin their lives anew. I hope Haitians are freed from the infernal political and economic machine that has oppressed them for so long and I hope that the people of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela are able to at long last free themselves from their tyrants. I hope the people of Tigray see peace. I hope that Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto, is able to become just that for its people, and is protected from the various predators currently encircling it.
As for me, I have a new book to write and a new life to build in a new place, which I will talk about more in the coming months.
Though these years of pandemic have resulted in too many of us being apart if not alone, in 2022 let's live the ethos frequently repeated by members of Cuba's Movimiento San Isidro: Estamos conectados (We are connected).
I wish you all limitless joy in the new year.
xo
MD
My articles
Rumblings of Change in Puerto Rico for Newlines Magazine (22 February 2021)
The Death of Haiti’s President Summons Ghosts Old and New for Newlines Magazine (28 July 2021)
"Oración" by Amaury Pacheco (Translated by Michael Deibert) for the Washington Post (16 July 2021)
Book Examines African Role in Western Prosperity for Newlines Magazine (26 November 2020)
Interviews
Can Haiti rid itself of Jovenel Moïse? in The Economist (25 February 2021)
The murder of Haiti’s president will worsen the country’s chaos in The Economist (7 July 2021)
Jovenel Moïse: el asesinato del presidente de Haití deja un tenso vacío de poder en el vecino país in El Nuevo Día (7 July 2021)
Jovenel Moïse: el polémico presidente que quiso cambiar Haití y al que Haití devoró in El Confidencial (7 July 2021)
Asesinado el presidente de Haití in The Washington Post (8 July 2021)
Interview on the assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse on Al Jazeera (9 July 2021)
Magnicidio en Haití: la visión de un exagente de la CIA y un periodista que conoció a Moïse in La Tercera (10 July 2021)
Haití deposita su futuro en el mundo in El Comercio (10 July 2021)
Haiti’s president is dead — but why did it take a hit squad of 28? in The Times (11 July 2021)
Haiti crisis deepens after prime minister sacks prosecutor on Al Jazeera (15 September 2021)
The History Hour: The earthquake that devastated Haiti on the BBC (18 September 2021)
Biden's Summer of Disappointments & Haiti on From the North (27 September 2021)
Dossier of elite’s links to drug gangs ‘led to murder of Haitian president’ in The Times (18 December 2021)
No comments:
Post a Comment