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Tom Hennigan

South America Correspondent

Tom Hennigan is the South America correspondent of The Irish Times. Previously based in Buenos Aires, he is currently located in São Paulo from where he covers the region’s political, social and economic developments.

The head of Bolivia’s public prosecution service said prosecutor Marcelo Soza will not return to the trial of two men arrested in the 2009 police raid in which Michael Dwyer (above) was killed. Photograph: PA Wire
Bolivian prosecutor in Dwyer case removed from post

Public prosecutor linked to evidence of tampering and blackmail

President of El Salvador Mauricio Funes. Photograph: Reuters
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Argentina’s tax amnesty comes amid the latest corruption scandal to hit Argentinian president Cristina Kirchner and the opposition warns it could be used to launder millions looted from public coffers by officials in recent years. Photograph: Reuters/Enrique Marcarian
Argentina tax amnesty aims to raise cash

Opposition warns move was designed to ‘legitimise’ Kirchner family’s fortunes

Protesters carry signs during a demonstration organized by various organizations and movements in Brasilia. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
Brazil’s homophobic pastor appointed as head of commission on human rights

One of Marco Feliciano’s first acts was to back move towards ‘gay cure’

Brazilian police link to death squads

Evidence mounts in killings of hundreds of people in country’s largest city

New Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes waves to supporters in Asuncion, Paraguay, with, right, vice-president elect Juan Afara. Photograph: Jorge Saenz/AP
Paraguay elects controversial president Horacio Cartes

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Paraguayan presidential candidate Horacio Cartes of the Colorado Party laughs off the suggestion that he is a “narco”. Photograph: Reuters
Alleged king of contraband favourite for Paraguay’s presidency

Horacio Cartes laughs off the suggestion that he is involved in drug trafficking and cigarette smuggling

Venezuela’s president-elect Nicolas Maduro holds up a photograph of Jose Luis Ponce, a supporter killed on Monday's post-election street violence. Photograph: Marcelo Garcia/Reuters
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