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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34 Current Risk Assessment Theory Recent risk assessment theory has shifted to include the threats posed by nations considered unstable rather than ones once considered to be the “ declared enemies ” of the United States .
The 2002 poll found the following : ( 1 ) Latin America , as a world region , was considered to pose little threat to the United States ; ( 2 ) the five most “ critical threats ” mentioned by the public included international terrorism ...
Latin America is not among the top ranks of failed states and is not considered an incubator of terrorist groups with a global reach to threaten the security of the United States . Only Colombia , the third largest recipient of U.S. ...
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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