Michael Deibert, Writer

Michael Deibert is the author of Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History (Zed Books), In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico (Lyons Press, 2014), The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair (Zed Books, 2013) and Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti (Seven Stories Press, 2005). He can be followed at twitter.com/michaelcdeibert.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

2007: A Reporter's Notebook of the Year Gone By

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This past year was a fairly interesting one for me, from a reporting perspective and otherwise, and saw me traveling to six countries on thr...
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Friday, December 14, 2007

COTE D'IVOIRE: A Call for Solidarity in Resolving Fate of Missing Reporter

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COTE D'IVOIRE: A Call for Solidarity in Resolving Fate of Missing Reporter By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service PARIS, Dec 14, 2007 (...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

W’s Christmas present to American children: Vetoing health insurance

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As one of the nearly 50 million Americans without health insurance, my feelings about the American healthcare system - where private health ...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

How different the world might have been…

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...If things had turned out differently in Florida during that November seven years ago… He referred to or quoted several major world and l...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

The fields of Nandigram

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I have been following with concern in recent weeks the situation in the Indian state of West Bengal. Home to the world’s longest serving dem...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007

A good week for democracy, a bad week for democracy and the head-in-the-sand approach to climate change

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Democratic progressives were alternately heartened and chastened by developments around the world in the past week. In Venezuela, President...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Interview with KDVS

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I had a fairly wide-ranging interview with France Kassing of Davis, California’s KDVS yesterday, concerning the recent Paris riots , my expo...
Monday, December 03, 2007

The Bitter Taste of Cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire

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ECONOMY The Bitter Taste of Cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service BINAO, Southern Côte d'Ivoire, Dec 3, 2007...
Saturday, December 01, 2007

Taslima Nasreen forced into hiding

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News reaches me via an article in The Guardian and via a rushed instant message conversation with the author herself, who is in hiding, th...
Friday, November 30, 2007

TRADE: Blood Diamonds No Longer Congo-Brazzaville's Best Friend

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TRADE: Blood Diamonds No Longer Congo-Brazzaville's Best Friend By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service PARIS, Nov 30, 2007 (IPS) - The...

FRANCE: Troubled Suburbs Erupt Again

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FRANCE: Troubled Suburbs Erupt Again By Michael Deibert Inter Press Service VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France, Nov 29, 2007 (IPS) - The police station...
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Update on Riots in France

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Update on Riots in France The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC After two nights of deadly rioting in Paris’s suburbs earlier this week, the situati...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Riots Rage in Paris Suburb After Police Collision

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Riots Rage in Paris Suburb After Police Collision All Things Considered, November 27, 2007 · Riots in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel co...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The flames of Villiers-le-Bel

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There are sometimes in life when you would rather be proved wrong. In September, for the Inter Press Service, I penned an article examining...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Homage to Catalunya

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Having just stepped off the plane in Paris from several days spent visiting my old reporting buddy Gerry Hadden and his family in Barcelona...
Monday, November 19, 2007

Dispatch from Brussels

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Having just returned from an enjoyable weekend of festivities in Brussels, it was interesting to see how the new Europe’s political capital ...
Friday, November 16, 2007

In Ivory Coast, a Fragile Peace Is Framed by Promises Unfulfilled

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In Ivory Coast, a Fragile Peace Is Framed by Promises Unfulfilled By Michael Deibert Special to The Washington Post Friday, November 16, 200...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

The Dead and the Missing in Kashmir

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My article The Dead and the Missing in Kashmir: The Struggle for Kashmir, was originally printed in the Spring 2007 editor of the World Pol...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

How independent journalism can have an effect

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As many progressive, principled journalists will tell you, dear reader, the road trod by reporters genuinely trying to make this world a be...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Bravo, Zapatero!

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It is very rare in my experience as an international correspondent that one can speak with unhesitating praise about the actions of the worl...
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I am an author and journalist who focuses on Haiti, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Mexico, Guatemala and occasionally further afield in Africa, the Americas and Europe. Hopefully, that means being of some use in the struggle of economically and socially disadvantaged people to lead more just and decent lives. Photo © Hilary Wallis
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