Rory Carroll



Profile:
Full name: Rory Carroll-Maher

Area of interest: Foreign affairs

Journals/Organisation: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:rory.carroll@guardian.co.uk rory.carroll@guardian.co.uk]

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Website: Guardian.co / Rory Carroll

Blog: Comment is free...

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Education: Blackrock College, Trinity College; Dublin City University, Ireland

Career: The Guardian: Reporter 1997/1999, Foreign correspondent in Rome 1999/2002, Africa 2002/2005, Iraq 2005, Africa 2005/2006, South America 2006- Current position/role: Foreign correspondent


 * also writes/has written for: salon.com

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 * Guardian journalist abducted in Baghdad The Guardian, 20th October 2005
 * Abducted Guardian journalist is freed The Guardian, 20th October 2005
 * Iraqi police praised as four arrested over abduction The Guardian, 22nd October 2005

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 * Lest mass murder be forgotten OCLC58433186, 2004

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Website: Rory Carroll: All | Argentina | Colombia | Cuba

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Articles:

 * Who needs Che? - Fifty years on from Cuba's revolution, there is relief that Guevara never managed to export his experiment - 4th January 2009
 * Mellowing in Miraflores - Hugo Chavez now displays the attributes of a good loser - 8th January 2008
 * Looney Tunes in Caracas - Chavez is an outsize and colourful character. But that is no excuse to treat him and events like a cartoon - 25th August 2007
 * What Chavez thinks about open debate - Whether he follows through or not, Hugo Chavez's threat to expel foreign critics does great damage to the cause of free speech in Venezuela - 23rd July 2007
 * Changing channels - The protests over the closure of Venezuela's RCTV have hurt Hugo Chavez but are now losing momentum - 22nd June 2007
 * A video nasty - Pictures of a 2001 meeting between Columbia's president and a notorious paramilitary have brought the scandal of collusion closer to the centre of power - 19th June 2007
 * Neutering dissent - The Venezuelan president's decision to cancel the free-to-air license of an anti-Chavez TV station sends out worrying signals - 23d May 2007
 * The hydra loses a head - With the death of Zarqawi, the insurgency in Iraq has lost its public face - for the time being - 8th June 2006


 * Neutering dissent - The Venezuelan president's decision to cancel the free-to-air license of an anti-Chavez TV station sends out worrying signals


 * Trial of the century? Not for the Iraqis - the trial of Saddam Hussein - 18th October 2005



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 * Wikipedia bio