Monday, July 29, 2013

Saint Jacques

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Photo © Michael Deibert
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Why Arrest of Zetas Leader Does Not Mean End to Mexico's Drug War

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Posted: 07/16/2013 8:34 pm Why Arrest of Zetas Leader Does Not Mean End to Mexico's Drug War By Michael Deibert The Huffi...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Letter to Miami-Dade County Commission on plans to close nearly all public libraries

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13 July 2013 Greetings, Commissioner Sally A. Heyman. My name is Michael Deibert, and I am a journalist and author who currently resides ...

Brief note on the capture of Miguel Angel Treviño Morales

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Among the most difficult passages to write in my new Mexico book have been those on the atrocities Los Zetas have committed during their l...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Happy 53rd Birthday, Democratic Republic of Congo

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From your serpentine, churning namesake river to your beautiful mist-shrouded mountains to your inscrutable steaming jungles and your rolli...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

A melancholy anniversary

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It was 59 years ago today that Guatemala's democratically-elected president Jacobo Árbenz was overthrown in a CIA-engineered coup . A...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Jesús Malverde

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Photo © Michael Deibert
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

"The only thing they gave us was a stadium"

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Some São Paulo protesters explain why they took to the streets.
Monday, June 17, 2013

CAR rebel victory throws resource deals into doubt

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12/06/2013 9:02 am CAR rebel victory throws resource deals into doubt   By Michael Deibert FDI Magazine (This article first appeare...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Congo Mask

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I bought this mask while living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of about a dozen that I own. Beautiful, I think, in its craft...
Sunday, June 09, 2013

Los Zetas spend all drug profits fighting off the Cártel del Golfo?

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Here's a drug war statistic for you, courtesy of Mexico's Reforma newspaper: Los Zetas earn $350 million annually by importing 40 ...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Reinaldo Arenas on Miami

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The typical Cuban machismo has attained alarming proportions in Miami...[It] was like a caricature of Cuba, the worst of Cuba: the et...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Woke up to this sky this morning

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  Photo © Michael Deibert
Monday, May 13, 2013

On Writing

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument yo...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Biscayne Bay, Miami

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Photo © Michael Deibert
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Thursday, May 02, 2013

Front page of the new book

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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Thanks to the International Studies Program...

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...At Franklin & Marshall College for hosting my talk on the Democratic Republic of Congo and the most interesting Q&A session that...
Monday, March 25, 2013

BOOK REVIEW: What Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez left behind

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(Note: The Miami Herald published a somewhat-mangled edit of a review I wrote of the fine new book on Venezuela by Guardian reporter Rory ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Michael Deibert's Haiti Bookshelf

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18 March 2013 Michael Deibert's Haiti Bookshelf The Huffington Post (Read the original article here ) Despite its image of rele...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

White Egret

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I spied this during an afternoon walk in Miami. Photo © Michael Deibert