Notes from the World

By Michael Deibert

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Episodes: 56

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Politics, culture, and society from the Caribbean, Latin America, and beyond.

Episode Date
"The Israeli settlers are becoming more and more dangerous"
Jul 20, 2026
"On October 7th, It Felt Like the Testimonies I Had Been Reading Were Coming to Life in the Most Horrific of Ways"
Jul 15, 2026
“Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo Will Fall”: A Conversation About Nicaragua
Jul 02, 2026
"People are really panicking" : Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Casts a Shadow Across Africa
Jun 18, 2026
"Political and economic groups always saw Fernando as an inconvenient figure for their interests": A Conversation with Verónica Sarauz
May 26, 2026
"What you basically have in Venezuela is the same dictatorship in place"
May 06, 2026
“Where Is Due Process? Where Is Democracy? Who Is Standing Up?” Immigration Policy In Trump's America
Apr 26, 2026
Democratic Republic of Congo: “There Is Definitely a Strong Sense of Fear”
Apr 19, 2026
"We keep pushing away the very people who would help us accomplish our foreign policy goals"
Mar 30, 2026
Iran: "Life Is Unbearable Under the Islamic Republic"
Mar 20, 2026
Mexico's CJNG made violence “into their language”
Mar 16, 2026
“It took so much violence to keep slavery in place for 400 years.”
Feb 24, 2026
“This is just the latest symbol of a much larger Florida story.”
Feb 13, 2026
Rwanda "has been putting in place a proxy state" in eastern DR Congo
Jan 27, 2026
“Venezuela is a country that everybody wants to use as a rhetorical tool in the United States but not a country that a lot of people are interested in actually knowing.”
Jan 07, 2026
"If You Don’t Tell Your Own Story, Somebody Else Is Going to Tell It for You."
Dec 24, 2025
Marseille: "We're all losers, so we're all winners in a way."
Dec 20, 2025
Inside the Maelstrom: Jihadists, Juntas & Russian mercenaries in the Sahel
Dec 07, 2025
The Fall of El Fasher
Nov 04, 2025
"I think H. P. Lovecraft's time in New York shaped him as the writer that he became."
Oct 31, 2025
"We have never figured out how to value Africa at its true worth."
Oct 28, 2025
"Ukraine is literally defending us"
Oct 06, 2025
"Historically, Mexico's government has been complicit in hiding the high levels of violence."
Sep 16, 2025
"This is the face of totalitarianism."
Sep 01, 2025
"Haiti Must Change."
Aug 23, 2025
Syria's government must "be truly inclusive in a serious and significant manner."
Aug 12, 2025
Milei's Argentina
Aug 06, 2025
"It is a moral responsibility to listen to the women of Afghanistan."
Jul 29, 2025
The Essequibo Question
Jul 10, 2025
"Dessalines should be remembered as somebody who, above all else, prioritized the abolition of slavery."
Jun 29, 2025
"Not Even Game of Thrones Compares to Bolivian Politics."
Jun 11, 2025
Run From Rain: A Conversation with Jess DiPierro Obert
Jun 01, 2025
"In Peru, having power means having the capacity to kill."
May 16, 2025
A Conversation with Joe Boyd
May 02, 2025
A Conversation About Ukraine’s Literature and Nationhood With Oksana Lutsyshyna
Apr 25, 2025
"Palestinians are just like any other human beings."
Mar 28, 2025
"We want Elon Musk out of the government.": A look behind the Tesla Takedown protests
Mar 21, 2025
Honduras Under the Gun: A Conversation with Jared Olson
Mar 13, 2025
Guatemala's Struggle Against Impunity
Feb 28, 2025
"What we have left is the street and a resistance movement"
Feb 15, 2025
"People don’t suffer less because of the identity of the perpetrator. They suffer equally."
Jan 30, 2025
Venezuela “is a state that is not just an ally of organized crime but one that has been taken over by organized crime”
Jan 21, 2025
Haiti's Earthquake, 15 Years On: A Conversation with Louino Robillard
Jan 12, 2025
“The most important thing is not to despair.”
Dec 17, 2024
"Hope is reignited and we can go back and rebuild Syria without tyranny."
Dec 09, 2024
“The Russians are always the ones in charge. They give the orders.”
Nov 21, 2024
A Discussion with Roqia Samim
Nov 12, 2024
A Conversation with Michela Wrong
Oct 31, 2024
A Conversation with author Sarah Gerard
Sep 18, 2024
A Conversation with Michael Pierse
Sep 05, 2024
A Conversation with Manisha Sinha
Aug 13, 2024
“When we’re talking about Dodik, we’re talking about Vučić”
Jul 02, 2024
“Petro is trying to bring us to a point of no return”
Jun 17, 2024
Michael Deibert & Juan Martinez d'Aubuisson on El Salvador
May 13, 2024
Michael Deibert and Gershon Baskin on Israel & Palestine
Apr 12, 2024
Michael Deibert and Louis-Henri Mars on the crisis in Haiti
Mar 23, 2024