Hugh O'Shaughnessy is an Irish journalist who has worked for over 40 years for major British newspapers including The Observer

The Observer

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, The Independent

The Independent

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, the Financial Times

Financial Times

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and most frequently The Guardian

The Guardian

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. He has also published a number of books focusing on Latin America. He was a friend of Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....

. He has several awards including two British Press Awards

British Press Awards

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, the 1986 Maria Moors Cabot Prize

Maria Moors Cabot prize

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 for journalistic contributions to inter-American understanding and the Wilberforce Medallion from Hull

Kingston upon Hull

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 and has been recognised by the Columbia University

Columbia University

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 Graduate School of Journalism in the United States.

Books

• The Priest of Paraguay, Zed Books
  Zed Books
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   (2009)
• Sue Branford and Hugh O'Shaughnessy (2005), Chemical Warfare in Colombia: The Costs of Coca Fumigation (LAB Short Books)
• Pinochet: The Politics of Torture, Latin America Bureau (1999)
• East Timor? Getting Away With Murder (1994)
• Around the Spanish Main: Travels in the Caribbean and the Guianas (1991)
• Latin Americans (1988)
• H. Hamilton with The Observer (1984), Grenada: Revolution, Invasion and Aftermath