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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However , Europeans want the European Union to become a superpower like the United States in order to better counterbalance Washington and to inject a greater ( and more accurate ) strategic sensibility than what they have experienced ...
As SIPRI points out , “ Unfortunately , the clearer the existence of mass - destruction capacities becomes and the more irresponsible their possessor is known to be , the harder it becomes to take resolute action to get rid of the ...
110 In any case , the U.S. border with Mexico has become a “ hot spot ” because of the deepening sense of vulnerability experienced by many U.S. citizens , who see a connection between the increase in illegal immigrants crossing in high ...
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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