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Hosted by Michael Deibert · news · EN
Politics, culture, and society from the Caribbean, Latin America, and beyond.
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Signup to Generate a PitchNotes from the World is hosted by Michael Deibert. The show has published 62 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "“As Palestinians, we are looking to have a new generation of politicians and a new spirit in our political system.”" (21 October 2026, 20 minutes), "How a Global Network Whitewashes Cuban Government Violence and Repression" (9 October 2026, 39 minutes), and "Lebanon: “Instability Is the Only Constant You Ever Know”" (9 September 2026, 91 minutes).
Notes from the World publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 62 episodes.
Booking probability for Notes from the World is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Notes from the World requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Notes from the World's contact route on record: verified email.
Michael Deibert hosts Notes from the World, a news podcast with 62 episodes published.
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Episode #62
On 10 October, Mahmoud Abbas, the 90 year-old President of the Palestinian National Authority, announced that legislative elections due to be held next month would instead be postponed until September 2027, citing what...
Notes from the World
Human Rights Watch characterizes the Caribbean nation of Cuba thusly: "The Cuban government continues to repress dissent and deter public criticism. It routinely relies on long and short-term arbitrary detention to...
Episode #60
“In 1974, Beirut ranked among the greatest metropolises of the Near East. With a population of only slightly more than a million, its demographic weight was modest by comparison with Cairo, even with Damascus; and as...
Episode #59
In August 2021, after two decades of military involvement, the people of Afghanistan were abandoned by the United States and its allies. The Taliban, the extremist Islamist movement supported by the Pakistani...
Episode #58
On the night of 14 August 1791, in the course of a complex invocation of the Vodou religion that had been created as a syncretic combination of Catholic and African beliefs by the enslaved population of the French...
Episode #57
On July 19th, the streets and homes of Spain burst into euphoric celebration as the country’s national team defeated Argentina at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey to win the men’s FIFA World Cup for only...
Episode #56
Sami Huraini is a Palestinian human rights activist whose family hails from the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank, one of the centres of the most intense violence currently being committed by Israeli settlers, often...
Episode #55
Yardena Schwartz is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, the Economist, and Foreign Policy, among other publications. She is...
Episode #54
In July 1979, the 43 year dictatorship of the Somoza family in Nicaragua was brought to an end when Anastasio Somoza Debayle was overthrown by a rebel army led by the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, the FSLN...
Episode #54
Thus far, 2026 has been a very difficult year for LGBTQ rights in Africa. Homosexuality is illegal in 31 countries on the African continent, representing half of the continent’s states, and in recent years, the adoption...
Episode #52
When Ecuador’s centre-right president Guillermo Lasso dissolved the country’s National Assembly amid a second impeachment proceeding against him in May 2023, he triggered a general election in which he did not run but...
Episode #51
Juan Forero is the South America bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. Based in Bogotá, Colombia, he worked for both the New York Times and National Public Radio before joining the Journal, and he has been reporting...
Episode #50
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, immigration policy in the United States has undergone profound changes. Masked, anonymous agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and...
Episode #49
As large as Western Europe or the United States east of the Mississippi River, the Democratic Republic of Congo remains a place where Africa’s greatest potential and most wrenching tragedies are frequently lived out...
Episode #48
Luis Moreno was born in New York City and graduated with a BA in History from Fordham University and an MA in Education at Kean College before joining the foreign service. In a long and varied career he held, among...
Episode #47
(Cover Image: Footage of an 8 January 2026 protest in Bandar-e Anzali, northern Iran, shared via Telegram.) On 28 February of this year, the United States and Israel launched attacks against the Islamic Republic of...
Episode #46
Today on Notes from the World, we are joined by José de Cordoba, the longtime Mexico City correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. We have a wide-ranging discussion about the significance of the recent killing of...
Episode #45
Carrie Gibson is the author of three works of history: Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean From Columbus to the Present Day (2014), El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America (2019) and...
Episode #45
Last month, in Florida’s Manatee County along the state’s western Gulf Coast, the Seattle-based marine terminal services company SSA Marine Inc. announced that it intended to partner with a Tampa, Florida-based holding...
Episode #43
A constitutional lawyer by training, Filip Reyntjens first set foot in Rwanda in July 1976 to help run a project at the Law School at the National University in Butare. Over the last 50 years, he has provided observers...
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