Michael Deibert, Writer

Colombia: Turning over a new leaf

Published on 2010-08-19 09:31:00

(This article was submitted several months ago, but better late than never. My previous reporting from Colombia, on the situations in Medellín and in the Bajo Cauca region, can be read here and here, respectively. MD)Colombia: Turning over a new leafBy Michael Deibert8 August 2010Foreign Direct InvestmentThe exit of president Álvaro Uribe marks a new era for Colombia. Once given a wide berth by investors, security has improved and its capital, Bogotá, is undergoing a revival. Michael Deibert

The international community's responsibility to Haiti

Published on 2010-07-12 07:53:00

The international community's responsibility to HaitiBy Michael DeibertThe Guardian12 July 2010 (Please read the original article here)It is a gloomy anniversary: the six-month mark since the earthquake that levelled vast swaths of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding towns, killing well over 200,000 people.Though the earthquake was promiscuously destructive, killing the good and the bad, the rich and the poor, those who still remain encamped in sprawling tent cities lashed by tropic

Srebrenica, 15 years on

Published on 2010-07-10 21:59:00

On the 15th anniversary of the massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, I thought it an apt time to repost this piece I wrote in 2006, which focuses in part on such ill-famed individuals as Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali and Arundhati Roy and their denial of the war crimes that took place during the Balkan wars. Good rebuttals from actual journalists such as Ed Vulliamy and survivors such as Kemal Pervanic included within.MD9 October 2006Freedom speech and its perils(Read the original arti