Hot Spot: Latin America

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Bloomsbury Academic, 28. feb. 2008 - 288 síđur

From border crime in Mexico to Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this volume presents up-to-the-minute coverage of the key conflicts, corruption, and revolutionary movements simmering or raging in every region of Latin America. In-depth, comprehensive chapters explore drug wars, immigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil, and political instability, including: The Zapatista Rebellion, the Darien Gap controversy, Evo Morales, Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and Tupac Amaru, the Falklands, and Guantanamo Bay.

From border crime in Mexico to Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this volume presents up-to-the-minute coverage of the key conflicts, corruption, and revolutionary movements simmering or raging in every region of Latin America. In-depth, comprehensive chapters explore drug wars, imigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil, and political instability. This is a must-have source for current coverage of trouble spots in Latin America, their origins, and subsequent development.

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... HAITI AS A FAILED STATE Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic and lies six hundred miles off the coast of Florida . More than 80 percent of Haiti's approximately 8.5 million people live below the poverty line ...
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... Haitian National Police ( PNH ) and the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti ( MINUSTAH ) struggle to secure the country . There have been interna- tional efforts to convert the PNH into an effective , impartial , and pro- fessional law ...
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... Haiti ranks first among the ten Latin American countries on the 2005 Failed State Index . The two most important indicators of a failed state- uneven development and criminalization of the state - are particularly pronounced in Haiti as ...

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Hot Spot: Latin America
David Dent
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Um höfundinn (2008)

David W. Dent is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Latin American Relations (Greenwood, 2005), Encyclopedia of Modern Mexico (2002), The Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine: A Reference Guide to U.S. Involvemenet in Latin America and the Caribbean (Greenwood, 1999), and the co-author of Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations (1998). Dent is the author of over 100 articles, essays, and chapters on Latin American and U.S.-Latin American relations. For over 30 years he has been a contributing editor of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, a biannual reference book published by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

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TitillHot Spot: Latin America
Hot Spot Histories
HöfundurDavid Dent
Editionillustrated
ÚtgefandiBloomsbury Academic, 2008
Original fromTexas-háskóli
Digitized21 júlí 2008
ISBN031333661X, 9780313336614
Length288 síđur
  
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