Sunday, June 22, 2014

An Inside Look at Mexico's Drug War

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An Inside Look at Mexico's Drug War The Takeaway  (Please listen to the full interview with The Takeaway's John Hockenberry her...
Monday, June 09, 2014

Journalist paints an ugly picture of Mexican cartel violence in 'In the Shadow of Saint Death'

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Posted on Fri, Jun. 06, 2014 Journalist paints an ugly picture of Mexican cartel violence in 'In the Shadow of Saint Death' By ...
Friday, June 06, 2014

Inside Mexico’s Drug War on on KERA Dallas

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You can listen to my hour-long discussion on the Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas and Mexico's (and America's) drug war on KERA Dallas here ....
Friday, May 30, 2014

Spied by a friend...

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...In the window of a bookstore in Lusaka, Zambia...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

L'heure d'été

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Seeing this picture for the first time brightened my afternoon. Albert Camus and his publisher, Michel Gallimard, Greece, 1958. It is i...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Special delivery from La Flaca

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Saturday, May 10, 2014

So Very Miami

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Photo © Michael Deibert
Friday, April 18, 2014

Bullet

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Photo © Michael Deibert In July 2006, I picked this shell casing up from the ground in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Martissant...

Thoughts on the passing of Gabriel García Márquez (and Heberto Padilla)

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Great writers are not necessarily great human beings. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was a rabid anti-semite and Nazi collaborator. Ernest Heming...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Literatura sin fronteras

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I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity this past weekend to discuss writing and literature with the Cuban poet Amaury Pacheco...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Haiti: In the Kingdom of Impunity

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Haiti: In the Kingdom of Impunity  By Michael Deibert There are many striking sights to be seen in Haiti today. In the north of the co...
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Centenary

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Mexican writer Octavio Paz. Do yourself a favour and read El Laberinto de la...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Exploring the world of Haitian vodou

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The Miami Herald  Posted on Sun, Mar. 02, 2014  Exploring the world of Haitian vodou    By Michael Deibert  (Read the original arti...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Ayiti mwen fou pou w

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Photo © Michael Deibert
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

The Horror, the Horror

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Posted on Feb 28, 2014 The Horror, the Horror  A review of The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair, a book by Michael...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Africa Today discussion on crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga

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I spoke on Press TV's Africa Today along with Save the Congo's Vava Tampa and the LSE's Gabi Hesselbien about the crisis in th...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Three Graces

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Photo © Michael Deibert
Friday, January 24, 2014

Book Review: The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair

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17 January 2014   Book Review: The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despai      LSE’s Jonathan Silver calls Michael Deibe...

Wonderful postcard from Cuba

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Monday, January 13, 2014

La isla del encanto

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Photo © Michael Deibert