World Affairs: South America
Lead Feature
Ingrid Betancourt -- who she?
The parochialism of the UK media plumbed new depths with coverage of the release of the kidnapped Colombian politician
In south america
A warning to torturers everywhere
- By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- 02 July
The man who did much of Pinochet's dirty work is given two 25 year sentences for blowing up an exiled Chilean general and his wife in Buenos Aires
Sending money home
- By Enrique Mendizabal
- 20 June
The vital role of workers who send their money home to Latin America and how they can create a "brain gain" effect
Radical hope in Venezuela
- By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- 19 June
¡Hugo! The Hugo Chávez Story: from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
Bart Jones
Bodley Head, 608pp, £12.99
Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence
John Chasteen
Oxford University Press, 240pp,£14,99
The failing war on drugs
- By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- 17 June
US presidents rarely attack the really dangerous drugs of alcohol and tobacco and meanwhile efforts to reduce Colombia's drugs harvest are making little difference
Bolivia's racial onslaught
- By César Navarro
- 16 June
Bolivian socialist politician César Navarro - ambushed by a mob in his country's constitutional capital - explains how the right is using racist rhetoric to build an atmosphere of violence
Feature
Enduring memories
The Cuban master film-maker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea trod a fine line, supporting the revolution but insisting that artists should maintain their distance from those in power
More in south america
A new dawn for the Caribbean?
- By Darcus Howe
- 12 June 2008
Guevara's last stand
- By Chris Bradley
- 12 June 2008
The green fig leaves
- By Jan Rocha
- 29 May 2008
Bordering on disaster
- By Nicholas Wapshott
- 22 May 2008
Growth industry
- By Roger Scruton
- 15 May 2008
Priests' law of death
- By Martin Markovits and Vincent Bevins
- 01 May 2008
Don't look now
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 01 May 2008
