Hugh O'Shaughnessy



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Full name: Hugh O'Shaughnessy

Area of interest: Latin America

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Career: Hugh O'Shaughnessy is a British journalist who has worked for over 40 years for major British newspapers including The Observer, The Independent, the Financial Times and most frequently The Guardian. He has also published a number of books focusing on Latin America. He was a friend of Salvador Allende.

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Awards/Honours: He has several awards including two British Press Awards, the 1986 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for journalistic contributions to inter-American understanding and the Wilberforce Medallion from Hull and has been recognised by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States.

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Books & Debate:

 * H. Hamilton with The Observer (1984), Grenada: Revolution, Invasion and Aftermath
 * Latin Americans (1988)
 * Around the Spanish Main: Travels in the Caribbean and the Guianas (1991)
 * East Timor? Getting Away With Murder (1994)
 * Pinochet: The Politics of Torture, Latin America Bureau (1999)
 * Sue Branford and Hugh O'Shaughnessy (2005), Chemical Warfare in Colombia: The Costs of Coca Fumigation (LAB Short Books)

Latest work: The Priest of Paraguay, Zed Books (2009) (related > interview by George Galloway)

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