Thursday, July 30, 2015

How the OAS Failed Dominicans of Haitian Descent

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Earlier this month, the Organization of American States (OAS) sent an "observer mission" to the Dominican Republic to look into t...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Could the gangs of Port-au-Prince form a pact to revitalise Haiti's capital?

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Could the gangs of Port-au-Prince form a pact to revitalise Haiti's capital? Haiti’s leaders have long made use of armed groups to i...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Making sense of Miami:

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Thursday 2 July 2015 Making sense of Miami: what America's strangest city says about the US's future The dizzying blend of acc...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Jackie Gleason, Miami Beach, 1968.

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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Letter from Havana

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Havana: one of the world's great cities on the brink of a fraught transition   With negotiations under way to restore US ties, the C...

In from the cold: the implications of the US's thawing on Cuba

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In from the cold: the implications of the US's thawing on Cuba Michael Deibert | 12/06/2015 9:00 am Foreign Direct Investment The r...
Sunday, June 07, 2015

El Malecón, La Habana

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 Photo © Michael Deibert
Saturday, May 23, 2015

San Salvador Archbishop Óscar Romero

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Photo © Michael Deibert Taken during a visit to El Salvador in August 2008 on what would have been his 81st birthday, San Salvador Ar...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Little Haiti, Miami

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  Photo  © Michael Deibert
Friday, April 10, 2015

Resurrecting Newburgh

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Wednesday 8 April 2015 12.03 BST Resurrecting Newburgh The once-grand American city that had its heart torn out  Sixty miles north of Manh...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Historic Dutch Reformed Church in Newburgh, New York

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Photo © Michael Deibert The Historic Dutch Reformed Church in Newburgh (built 1835) whose ceiling collapsed down onto the pews i...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Los Zetas graffiti in Newburgh, New York

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Photo  © Michael Deibert How is this for a good morning? Los Zetas graffiti on Ann Street a few blocks away from my apartment in N...