Hot Spot: Latin America
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.
Over 30 security-based hot spots are analyzed within these geographical regions. They vary in severity, background, and degree of threat to the United States, the nation itself, or its regional neighbors. Hot spots covered include:
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a President Chávez has " embraced a repressive political agenda that has polarized the country , created ... abandonment of the democratic tradition under Hugo Chávez.78 The site , however , contains no mention of Chávez's high approval ...
By opposing the FTAA and neoliberalism in Latin America , President Chávez hopes to extend the concept of Bolivarian social missions internationally in an effort to put an end to the tradition of U.S. intervention in Latin America and ...
97 > Chavismo As Seen Through U.S. Media The U.S. media is also a factor in the demonization of President Chávez . In his study of the opinion pages of the twenty - five newspapers with the highest circulations in the United States ...
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Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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