Sunday, January 24, 2016

Haiti dances nervously towards bitterly contested presidential election

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Thursday 21 January 2016 13.54 GMT Haiti dances nervously towards bitterly contested presidential election Carnival begins on 7 ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The Demon Heirs of El Chapo

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01.10.1612:15 AM ET The Demon Heirs of El Chapo   Like the hydra from Greek mythology, the chopping off of one of the drug cartel’s hea...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Books in 2015: A Personal Selection

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 Ipanema, Dusk, December 2004  ©  Michael Deibert Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink by Juliana B...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

2015: A Reporter's Notebook of the Year Gone By

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This past year was one in which I struggled with the financial realities of doing serious, independent journalism as much as I ever have...
Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Has Guatemala's Long-Awaited Spring Finally Arrived?

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Has Guatemala's Long-Awaited Spring Finally Arrived? By Michael Deibert When former comedian Jimmy Morales was elected as Guatem...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Paris, je t'aime

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20 November 2015 Paris, je t'aime By Michael Deibert Huffington Post (Read the original article here ) Eight months after the...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Paris encore debout

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Photo © Chantal Regnault. Ce soir derrière le Bataclan Paris 11ème. Paris is still standing.
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Thoughts on the Paris attacks

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Back when I lived in Château Rouge, in the northeastern corner of Paris in the 18eme arrondissement, one of my favourite things to do on a ...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Jeune Haiti

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On this day in 1964, Louis Drouin and Marcel Numa, the last 2 surviving members Jeune Haiti, a group of 13 young Haitian men who had la...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Ofrendas

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   Photo © Michael Deibert
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Interview on France 24

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Here is my interview with France 24 on the attempt by the Republic of Congo's Denis Sassou Nguesso to cling to power in Brazzaville. ...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti

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10 years ago this month, my first book, Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti, was published by Seven Stories Press...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Ayotzinapa

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Ayotzinapa, un año después. Dónde están?
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Eid al-Fitr, Bouaké

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It was almost exactly this time 8 years ago that I sat on a plastic chair drinking a beer in Bouaké in Côte d'Ivoire, then control...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Pastoral letter from El Petén Bishop Mario Fiandri following killing of environmental activist Rigoberto Lima Choc

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                           COMUNICADO DEL VICARIATO APOSTÓLICO DE PETÉN «Yahveh dijo a Caín: “¿Dónde está tu hermano Abel? ¿Qué has hecho?...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Yemayá y Ochún

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The great Cuban poet and anthropologist Lydia Cabrera, also a longtime Miami resident, who was one of the world's foremost authoritie...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Letter to the New Yorker regarding Dan Slater's “The Missing Story of the Drug War"

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To Michael Agger, Cultural Editor at the New Yorker: In his recent article, “The Missing Story of the Drug War,” Dan Slater characterize...
Thursday, September 03, 2015

Brief thoughts on Syria and the European refugee crisis

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I think at this point we must all ask: What are we - collectively as citizens of Western countries whose actions (and inaction) have cont...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Juliana Barbassa and I Discussing Her Book

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Here are Juliana Barbassa and I at Books & Books in Miami discussing her new book, Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de...
Monday, August 10, 2015

In Mexico’s Veracruz, violence stalks journalists and students

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4 August 2015 In Mexico’s Veracruz, violence stalks journalists and students by Michael Deibert Fusion (Read the original story here )...