Wondering when and how I might ever get back to my beloved Jacmel...

Speaking of “reaching people where they are,” it’s strange how you never see Ryan or his emotional support millionaire streamer in the working class/working poor neighborhoods where I’ve lived for most of my life.

It's an extraordinary and shameful reflection on our commentariat that a financially-struggling and highly principled freelance journalist kidnapped off the streets of Baghdahad receives less attention than a spoiled, bigoted little rich boy hurling banal insults online when not torturing his dog.

Colombia, huh? Haitian businessman Pierre Reginald Boulos to be deported to Colombia amid legal fight haitiantimes.com/2026/04/04/p...

The fixation of the Bulwark people on promoting a vile antisemitic, anti-Ukrainian, anti-Cuban Twitch streamer that most of the country has never even heard of got weird a long time ago.

God almighty, they are starving to death and the government is lying about it: Camagüey zoo director says that "the animals do not go hungry" and prevents citizens from feeding them en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...

Un premier contingent de policiers tchadiens arrive à Port-au-Prince pour la Force de Répression des Gangs metropole.ht/un-premier-c...

Again, it is extraordinary how badly run this state is: Inspectors warned about Miami senior homes. The state sent at-risk elders anyway www.miamiherald.com/news/health-...

Un incendie détruit l’atelier de Céleur Jean Hérard à Port-au-Prince www.lecentredart.org/un-incendie-...

16 year-old Cuban political prisoner Jonathan Muir Burgos transferred without prior notice to his family adncuba.com/es/derechos-...

No political prisoners among first prisoners released under the mass pardon in Cuba www.14ymedio.com/cuba/primero...

Political prisoner is arrested again in Camagüey after serving sentence en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...

Violent police repression and a gulag of detention for political prisoners is about the only thing in Cuba that functions these days. elpais.com/us/2026-04-0...

An extraordinary amount of foreign coverage of Cuba in recent days has missed the "crimes against authority" exemption for the prisoners the dictatorship is releasing, i.e. almost certainly no political prisoners.

Thank you & mèsi anpil to all who attended my "Coloquio" at the University of Florida's Center for Latin American Studies for my forthcoming book, With the Pen in One Hand and the Sword in the Other: Haiti and the United States in the Nineteenth Century. @ugapress.bsky.social

26 years ago today, Haitian journalist Jean Léopold Dominique was slain in Port-au-Prince. Nine close associates of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide were subsequently indicted for alleged roles in the murder, but no one has ever gone to trial for the killing. N'ap sonje w, Jean Do.

My forthcoming book, With the Pen In One Hand and the Sword in the Other: Haiti and the United States in the Nineteenth Century, is now available for pre-order from @ugapress.bsky.social. www.ugapress.org/978082038100...

"Democracy is not for us," claims Burkina Faso dictator Ibrahim Traoré www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

DR Congo: Attaque des ADF à Mambasa : le bilan passe de 11 à 32 morts www.radiookapi.net/2026/04/02/a...

Sudan displacement surges as Blue Nile clashes compounds suffering www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...

Again, another one for all the Ibrahim Traoré fans out there: Burkina, Mali troops kill more civilians than jihadists do, data shows www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The fact that Cuba's dictatorship specifies that those convicted of "crimes against authority" will be excluded from the prisoners they are releasing is a clear indication that the the country's 1,100+ political prisoners are unlikely to be among those freed www.14ymedio.com/cuba/gobiern...

My forthcoming book, With the Pen In One Hand and the Sword in the Other: Haiti and the United States in the Nineteenth Century, is now available for pre-order from @ugapress.bsky.social. www.ugapress.org/978082038100...

Indeed, Manu, indeed. "This is not a show. We are talking about war and peace and the lives of men and women. When you want to be serious you don't say every day the opposite of what you said the day before. And maybe you shouldn't be speaking every day." www.bbc.com/news/article...

🤡🙃 Oil soars past $110 after Trump's Iran war address www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...

No foreign enemy of the United States could have more effectively degraded the country's reputation abroad or more thoroughly isolated it from its closest allies than the Trump regime has done.

My analysis of recent security developments in Haiti's Artibonite Valley and Port-au-Prince. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/lagonie-de...

As I wrote in @notesfromtheworld.bsky.social yesterday, Haiti's Marchand-Dessalines is now occupied by the Gran grif de Savien and Kokorat San Ras gangs. lenouvelliste.com/article/2658...

For all the Ibrahim Traoré fans out there: "The junta is committing horrific abuses itself, failing to hold those responsible on all sides to account, and curtailing reporting to obscure the suffering of civilians caught in the violence." www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

Having just returned to the state after a number of years away, I can say how badly it is run after years of Republican rule is truly stunning: ‘Warehoused without any protection’: Florida traps seniors in elder care homes www.miamiherald.com/news/health-...

With the Death Penalty for Palestinians, Israel Signals: Long Live the Jewish Terrorists www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The president of the United States & his regime behave with the immorality of lawless criminals both within the United States & beyond its borders. U.S. citizens brought this plague back upon the world with their votes & it's up to us to remove it if we ever are going to save our nation & our souls

A friend of mine is looking for good books on modern Libya and as this is not really my area of expertise, I was wondering if anyone on here had any to suggest?

You know the Trump Cartel and chavismo see a shared criminal project in their future when he orders the Department of the Treasury to remove the sanctions on Delcy Rodríguez as he did today. ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...

I haven't given up hope on making this important reporting trip, but paid subscriptions to the newsletter & podcast are what are able to make it happen, so re-sharing. Merci d'avance to those who think this a worthy project. 🙏 michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/ecuador-re...

This is a terrible indictment of how our profession treats its most committed practitioners: "Kittleson often worked w/o formal assignments from editors & on a shoestring budget...She spoke of mounting financial strain, saying she had no assignments while in Baghdad." apnews.com/article/iraq...

My analysis of recent security developments in Haiti's Artibonite Valley and Port-au-Prince. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/lagonie-de...

I haven't given up hope on making this important reporting trip, but paid subscriptions to the newsletter & podcast are what are able to make it happen, so re-sharing. Merci d'avance to those who think this a worthy project. 🙏https://michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/ecuador-reporting-trip-a-request

Republican Party base voter: Tocci's laptop "contained extremely disturbing images of violent acts, such as a cat being killed by being put in a blender, a male shooting a female in the head, a dog being beaten to death, and severed heads and limbs" www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I'm sorry, but if you can't manage to write a 1,000 word book review without the help of cheating with AI, you're no kind of journalist at all.

This is terrible: Trump admin exempts Gulf oil and gas drilling from endangered species protections www.tampabay.com/news/environ...

Cuban artist and political prisoner Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara begins new hunger strike www.14ymedio.com/cuba/amenaza...

Cecilia Flores Armenta, founder of the Madres Buscadoras de Sonora, finally locates the body of her son after 7 years of searching. A story all-too common in Mexico, unfortunately. www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/est...

The qualification of DR Congo's Léopards for the 2026 FIFA World Cup brings a rare moment of unified joy to the country. www.radiookapi.net/2026/04/01/a...

Dude, the Nazi tattoo, the Nazi podcasts, the bragging about killing people, the work for Blackwater, etc are not absolved by eating dinner at a religious observance.

Not surprising that a former Bernie Sanders advisor would find the misery and terrorizing state oppression that Cubans have lived under for decades suitable material for a dumb punchline as he collects his fat salary at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Some good news, if you needed it: Citing First Amendment, federal judge blocks Trump order to end funding for NPR and PBS apnews.com/article/trum...

Just received a video of members of Haiti's Kokorat San Ras gang marching armed through what appears to be Marchand-Dessalines in the Artibonite Valley literally throwing money at people. SMH...

Today, the kids in the Advanced Reporting class I teach spoke with a frontline reporter who joined us remotely from Ukraine. Next week, we'll be discussing free speech and Charlie Hebdo. It's been a real pleasure to open a bit more of the world up to them.

People in the UK do realize that the Green Party there is fucking nuts, right?