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Articles by hugh o'shaughnessy

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A warning to torturers everywhere

  • 02 July 2008

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

Radical hope in Venezuela

  • 19 June 2008

¡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

  • 17 June 2008
  • 1 comment

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

Dirty deeds in Bolivia

  • 02 June 2008
  • 20 comments

Agitation, violence and illegal ballots on autonomy. Hugh O'Shaughnessy on disgraceful tactics aimed at intimidating and undermining a democratically elected president

Bloodshed in South America

  • 21 May 2008
  • 16 comments

Hugh O'Shaughnessy ponders the games being played out on the borders of Venezuela and Colombia and wonders what the outcome might be

Bolivian poppycock

  • 06 May 2008
  • 12 comments

A faux referendum in Bolivia demanding greater autonomy for the Santa Cruz province is nothing more than a modern version of Ian Smith's shortlived minority rule in Southern Rhodesia

Decency wins in Paraguay

  • 21 April 2008
  • 7 comments

Despite attempts to rig the vote in deeply corrupt Paraguay, the South American country has a new government after 60 long and often brutal years

May it please Your Majesty

  • 15 April 2008
  • 3 comments

Hugh O'Shaughnessy writes an open letter to the Queen of the Netherlands about Curaçao ...

Britain's relations with Latin America

  • 31 March 2008
  • 19 comments

Hugh O'Shaughnessy gives his take on the visit of the leaders of Argentina and Chile to London and UK policy towards Latin America

Venezuelan oil judgement

  • 18 March 2008
  • 16 comments

We hear from the Royal Courts of Justice and the unfreezing of £6bn of Venezuela's state oil firm's assets following a battle with Exxon

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