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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Eldon Kenworthy , Americal Américas : Myth in the Making of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America ( University Park , PA : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1995 : 121 ) . 17. After Congress ordered a halt to the Contra rebels operating ...
The Matador's Cape : America's Reckless Response to Terror ( Cambridge , UK : Cambridge University Press , 2007 ) . Important work that suggests that security threats and hot spots are ideologically malleable in the hands of politicians ...
Rabe , Stephen G. U.S. Intervention in British Guiana : A Cold War Story ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2005 ) . Rochlin , James F. Vanguard Revolutionaries in Latin America : Peru , Colombia , Mexico ( Boulder ...
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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