Mexico is moving towards "electoral autocracy" under ruling Morena party, academics warn www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/202...

Apparently you're allowed to murder your daughter in Texas with no legal complications because "we’re a gun-friendly culture" www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

We Floridians are living with a concentration camp on our midst: Beatings and pepper bombs: Conditions worsen at Alligator Alcatraz, detainees say www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Here's the Bolivarian miracle that so many foreign leftists gushed over: “I work from three in the morning until five, Monday through Saturday. And I don't earn more than $300 a month. And that's if I'm being generous. We haven't eaten meat in years." elpais.com/america/2026...

Today on @notesfromtheworld.bsky.social, a discussion about the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo with journalist Emmet Livingstone and Clementine de Montjoye of Human Rights Watch. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/democratic...

A meeting of "progressive" leaders in Spain featuring a Brazilian president who relentlessly runs interference on behalf of the world's worst dictatorships & lies about Russia's invasion of Ukraine & a Mexican president who lies about the country's violence & destroys the environment. Spare me.

Working diligently to please his master: Trump Extends Sanctions Exemption on Some Russian Oil as High Gas Prices Persist www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...

Cuban man dies by suicide in ICE detention in Miami — the 2nd in Florida in a month www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Haiti's Ouanaminthe "now presents the image of an urban space left to its own devices, where unsanitary conditions have become an alarming norm" lenouvelliste.com/article/2664...

It is good to see the fractured relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic hopefully reviving somewhat lenouvelliste.com/article/2664...

Overdue: US sanctions sons of Nicaragua’s leaders and officials in the country’s gold industry apnews.com/article/us-n...

The world at large should be more aware of Senegal’s violently bigoted, homophobic so-called “leaders,” its president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, chief among them, and their risible claims that homosexuality is a “Western import” with no history in Africa. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Nearly 200 hostages freed after a military offensive against ADF rebels in DR Congo's Mambasa www.radiookapi.net/2026/04/17/a...

DR Congo govt and M23/AFC rebels commit to ensuring "rapid and unimpeded" access to humanitarian aid in country's east www.radiookapi.net/2026/04/18/a...

Canadian firm ignored worker complaints over drug cartel-management links at Mexican gold mine, sources say www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...

Haiti's Plateforme haïtienne des organisations de défense des droits humains & Commission Épiscopale Justice et Paix charge interim govt planning on delaying elections, noting plan to change Constitution “w/o legality or legitimacy," pressure on electoral council www.alterpresse.org/Haiti-La-POH...

Haiti gangs begin encroaching on country's Southeast, with mayor of Marigot warning fall of town would "inevitably" lead to fall of city of Jacmel and the entire Southeast Department metropole.ht/les-gangs-la...

There will be no peace in eastern DR Congo as long as Rwanda's empire-building Paul Kagame remains behind the M23: DRC and rebels sign peace monitoring deal in Switzerland www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-...

Drone attacks kill at least 44 civilians in Darfur and Kordofan www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...

The dictatorship groupies who were partying in Havana last month won't tell you about political prisoners like Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. elpais.com/us/2026-04-1...

The fact that this idiotic, pro-Soviet imperialism, crimes against humanity-denying crank still has a job is not a very good commentary on the Guardian.

Haiti's Jacmel sees large scale protest against insecurity lenouvelliste.com/article/2663...

The level of repression in El Salvador today is really quite something. confidencial.digital/mundo/centro...

New armed groups allied with Rwanda-backed AFC/M23 rebels reportedly appearing in DR Congo's Fizi highlands www.radiookapi.net/2026/04/16/a...

Juan Carlos Valencia González, the presumed new leader of Mexico's Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), was born in Santa Ana, California elpais.com/us/2026-04-1...

I see it's time for the international far left to pick another deeply-flawed hero in Peru after ignoring the country's politics for the last 4 years.

Some nice early positive reviews coming out 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. Deeply grateful to Howard French and Adam Hochschild, two authors whose work I admire immensely

A bunch of traitors who weren't very good at their jobs shouldn't have "groups" memorializing them, anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

At least 8 killed in gang attack against Haiti's Seguin lenouvelliste.com/article/2662...

It is gratifying to watch the imbecile whittle away his allies until he is left raving demented and alone: Trump turns against ‘unacceptable’ Meloni www.politico.eu/article/trum...

The pettiness, cruelty and stupidity of the regime knows no limits: Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Seven villages in DR Congo's Masisi emptied of their inhabitants in three weeks amid M23-Wazalendo fighting www.radiookapi.net/2026/04/15/a...

“The reality for children in Sudan is growing darker hour by hour” www.unicef.org/sudan/press-...

DRC peace talks open as violence shifts to remote highlands www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20...

Exchanging some personnel at the top while leaving tyrannical systems in place appears to be Trump's game plan - such as any "plan" can be discerned - in dealing with Venezuela, Iran and elsewhere: US issues license allowing transactions with some Venezuelan banks www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Pretty much sums up the proud ignorance of MAGA cultists Josh Parsons & Ray D’Agostino in my home county in Pennsylvania: Lancaster County commissioners pick GOP photographer over librarian for library system board lancasteronline.com/news/local/l...

Feel safer yet? French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to reunite with long-lost love www.bbc.com/news/article...

I guess when you have been wealthy your whole life and have barely had to work little things like gas prices, groceries and rent don't affect you: Fetterman shrugs off concerns about rising gas prices, blames media www.pennlive.com/politics/202...

Well, this is unfortunate. I always thought of Hampshire as something akin to my own alma mater of Bard (w/o the creepy eternal president) or Oberlin, nicely outside the cookie-cutter view of what higher education could be. The country needs more places like this. www.masslive.com/education/20...

Receiving very gruesome photos and videos of bodies of those reportedly slain in gang assaults against Haiti's Seguin over the last 24 hours.

Workers at Haiti's CODEVI industrial park in Ouanaminthe begin strike lenouvelliste.com/article/2662...

Haiti police chief tours areas of downtown Port-au-Prince formerly under gang control lenouvelliste.com/article/2662...

Florida religious leaders condemn Trump post on Pope Leo XIV www.tampabay.com/news/2026/04...

With no elections for a decade, Haiti’s transitional government appears poised to delay them yet again. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/haiti-leta...

Sudan army air strikes intensify across Darfur — at least 24 dead and dozens injured www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...

With no elections for a decade, Haiti’s transitional government appears poised to delay them yet again. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/haiti-leta...

With no elections for a decade, Haiti’s transitional government appears poised to delay them yet again. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/haiti-leta...

Democratic Odds of Taking the Senate Increase as Four Ratings Shift in Their Favor www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...

There should be more reporting about why U.S. businessman Randall Martin is in bed with Nicaragua's Ortega-Murillo dictatorship confidencial.digital/economia/dic...

Cuba's dictatorship upholds 5 year sentence against rapper Nando OBDC for "propaganda against the constitutional order" adncuba.com/es/derechos-...