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ENOCH POWELL

Enoch Powell is best remembered for his famous observation that all political careers end in failure.

Were he alive today he’d doubtless have one specially for Latin America, namely that all political careerists end in prison.

I first travelled everywhere in Latin America half a century back and have been back numerous times. I’d wager that over that period more than half of the continent’s Presidents and Prime Ministers have ultimately been imprisoned, and with bloody good cause.

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