New book on Pinochet

The veteran journalist and broadcaster, Mr Hugh O'Shaughnessy, introduced his latest book on the former Chilean dictator, Gen…

The veteran journalist and broadcaster, Mr Hugh O'Shaughnessy, introduced his latest book on the former Chilean dictator, Gen Augusto Pinochet, entitled Pinochet: The Politics of Torture, in Belfast's One World Centre. Mr O'Shaughnessy, who has covered Latin America as a journalist for almost four decades and was working in Chile when Gen Pinochet overthrew the socialist president, Mr Salvador Allende, in 1973, called for the establishment of a "proper" truth and reconciliation commission in the South American country.