Hugh O'Shaughnessy

Articles by Hugh O'Shaughnessy

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South America

More popular than Enver Hoxha

05 August 2008
6 comments

The worldwide prices of cocaine have not fluctuated much, nor, I am told, has product quality varied - but then there are lies, damn lies and Colombian statistics...

South America

America's confused outlook

21 July 2008
22 comments

The re-appearance of the fourth fleet prompts Hugh O'Shaughnessy to cast his mind back to his first trip to Venezuela in 1962

South America

A warning to torturers everywhere

02 July 2008
3 comments

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

Books

¡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

South America

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

South America

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

South America

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

World Affairs

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

World Affairs