Hot Spot: Latin AmericaBloomsbury 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. |
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... assassination and regime change in Venezuela to get rid of the threat posed by President Chávez.20 Threat - based hot spot terminology also assumes the existence of a " domino " effect in which trouble from a hot spot , if ignored , can ...
... assassination teams because it would be " a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ” to ensure our supply of oil.116 Defense Secre- tary Donald H. Rumsfeld compared President Chávez to Adolf Hitler and expanded his efforts to define ...
... assassination as a solution to what Washington considers the threat of " radical populism . " Several months later , during Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's trip to Latin America , a senior State Department official traveling with ...
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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