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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 54m

Six ans après l’assassinat du journaliste Néhémie Joseph, la justice peine à avancer à Mirebalais www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?art...

Haïti : Six ans après l’assassinat du journaliste Néhémie Joseph, la justice peine à avancer à Mirebalais

www.alterpresse.org

Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 55m

Haiti's Réseau national de défense des droits humains (RNDDH) human rights org says at least 24 armed attacks have occurred in the Artibonite Valley this year as gangs battle with militia, police lenouvelliste.com/article/2607...

Au moins 24 attaques armées recensées dans l'Artibonite cette année par le RNDDH

Le département de l’Artibonite est devenu en 2025 l’un des épicentres de la violence armée qui secoue le pays.

lenouvelliste.com

Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 57m

Hard to read the Guardian anymore since they plagiarized some of my Haiti reporting back in my May and refused to even acknowledge it let alone make amends for it.

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 1h

"Bullets rained down on the Champ-de-Mars and its surroundings during the Council of Ministers meeting" lenouvelliste.com/article/2607...

Rétablissement de la sécurité au centre-ville de Port-au-Prince : le verre est-il à moitié vide ou à moitié plein ?

Ces dernières semaines, le centre-ville de Port-au-Prince est devenu le symbole de victoire pour le gouvernement Fils-Aimé dans la lutte contre les gangs.

lenouvelliste.com

Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 1h

Out of control cowards in masks doing what they do best out of fear they will one day be held accountable for their crimes: WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 2h

Cool that soon we will apparently have almost no food: The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed last week that the president’s crackdown is cutting off agriculture’s labor supply and threatening “the stability of domestic food production.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 10h

O mejor aún, cuando se habla de interferencia extranjera, porqué no denunciar también la larga presencia cubana que ayudó a entrenar a las fuerzas de seguridad de Venezuela en el arte de la tortura y la represión? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How Has Maduro Survived? With Lots of Help From Cuban Operatives

The men who ripped Carlos Guillen’s toenails out and tightened a plastic bag over his face at counterintelligence headquarters in Caracas were Venezuelan. But the officers overseeing his torture were ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 10h

Cuando hablé con la historiadora de arte cubana Yanelys Núñez Leyva hace un par de años, mencionó que, en lo que respecta a Cuba, muchos de la izquierda siempre tienen un punto de comparación para limpiar la imagen del gobierno. Lo mismo ocurre con Venezuela. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Venezuela: Torture, arbitrary detention and abuse of dozens of children must stir international justice into action Venezuela-torture-abuses-against-children

Research exposing the arbitrary detention, torture and gross violations of the right of children after the elections in Venezuela

www.amnesty.org

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 10h

Los barrios más pobres y económicamente desfavorecidos son los que sufren el peor terrorismo de estado. ¿Por qué guardas silencio sobre estos crímenes? ¿Por qué intentas cambiar el tema a una teórica invasión estadounidense, que ninguno de nosotros apoya? elcomercio.pe/mundo/venezu...

Así está asesinando la policía a los críticos de Maduro en los barrios pobres de Caracas

Las redadas en José Félix Ribas, las más mortíferas de varias en Caracas el mes pasado, muestran cómo el gobierno ha usado al FAES para sofocar a críticos de Nicolás Maduro desde que Juan Guaidó se pr...

elcomercio.pe

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 10h

No es Machado, ni Estados Unidos, ni nadie más quien asesina, viola, empobrece y desplaza a la gente en Venezuela hoy. Es la dictadura del chavismo. Estás desesperado por desviar la atención de estos crímenes. ¿Porqué? www.hrw.org/video-photos...

Venezuela: Systematic Abuse of Opponents

The Venezuelan government has systematically used brutal treatment, including torture, against anti-government protesters and political opponents.

www.hrw.org

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 13h

This is a lot of Bluesky, Twitter etc today.

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 14h

Baltic states plan for mass evacuations in case of a Russian attack www.reuters.com/business/aer...

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 15h

Autumn day in the fields of South Central Pennsylvania

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 16h

Again I say, the GOP healthplan is simply that Americans die quicker: Without Obamacare subsidies, this couple's insurance premiums are set to go up almost $2,000 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Without Obamacare subsidies, this couple's insurance premiums are set to go up almost $2,000

The subsidies are a key sticking point in the government shutdown: Democrats in Congress say that in order to secure their votes to reopen the government, they must be extended.

www.nbcnews.com

Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 16h

De hecho, es solo otro puntal en la larga Lucha Antiimperialista™ Inc. Mañana podrán pasar a negar la humanidad de cubanos, nicaragüenses, sirios, iraníes, etc.

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 16h

Indeed, they haven't changed their tune since early 2000s, haven't evolved, haven't accepted new information & want to, at all costs, shut out Venezuelan voices from this discourse to keep regime apologists from reckoning with their consciences for running interference such a tyranny for so long.

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 16h

This goes for a large section of the LatAm left as well, unfortunately.

Johnny Graterol Guevara @gibarian.bsky.social · 17h

I do have to wonder about the arrogance of those, who self appoint themselves representatives of Venezuelans abroad without having the common courtesy of asking us first. Who the hell are you to speak in or name about what we do, and we don't want for our country? Seriously.

Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 17h

Chávez's original idea was to form a secret cell within the Venezuelan military & launch a homicidal coup in which hundreds of people died against a democratically-elected president who had nationalized the oil industry & served as the Vice President of the Socialist International for 16 years.

Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 19h

It is very gratifying to me to have a day when I know both MAGA cultists and the wretched tankie lackey bootlickers who support the atrocities of the Maduro regime are fuming. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...

White House knocks Nobel Committee for snubbing Trump, but peace prize winner praises him

Some of Trump's Republican allies have called for him to get the Nobel Peace Prize, though the nomination deadline passed early in his current term.

www.cnbc.com

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 19h

Instead of responding to the testimonies of hundreds of Venezuelans about the terrible abuses & atrocities they have suffered under the hands of Maduro & co - which is what is contained in the link to the ICC you're responding to - don't you feel weird trying to make it all about you? You should.

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 20h

A regime that pushes large numbers of people into unemployment even as it reveals itself unable to control the spiraling costs of basic goods is committing some very basic political errors.

Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 21h

This - and far worse - is the logical outcome when you have "agents in jeans and t-shirts" showing up anonymously to harass people & raid their homes without probable cause: El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 22h

This photo was taken 15 years ago today. They all thought they were going to rule forever, too.

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 22h

Equating Maduro & Machdo is false equivalence in the extreme. For all their flaws, Venezuela's opposition has nowhere engaged in the kinds of atrocities Maduro & co have been documented engaging in by the UN, HRW, the ICC & others. Read the testimony here: www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

www.icc-cpi.int

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 22h

The most antidemocratic forces "not for peace" in Venezuela are Maduro & co who have committed nonstop atrocities & who you are covering yourself in shame defending right now. Dehumanizing Venezuelans & mocking their suffering isn't the flex you think it is.

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