MICHAEL DEIBERT first visited Haiti in 1997 and has been working as a journalist, author, and analyst there for three decades. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Foreign Policy, Le Monde diplomatique, and Folha de São Paulo, among other media, and he has been a featured commentator on international affairs for the BBC, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, France 24, and National Public Radio as well as in the pages of The New York Times, The Economist, El País, Der Spiegel, and other publications. He received a fellowship from the International Peace Research Association and was selected as a finalist for the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, sponsored by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, in recognition of his work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.