Hot Spot: Latin AmericaBloomsbury Academic, 28. feb. 2008 - 288 síður 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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... Military sup- presses left - wing opposition groups , and over the next six years between 6,000 and 15,000 people " disappeared " in the " dirty war " that followed the coup . Colombian president Julio Turbay begins battle against drug ...
... war , hegemony , and occu- pation.113 During his campaign for the presidency in 2007 , Senator John McCain of ... Dirty War " of the 1970s and 1980s . To make her point about the dangers lurking in Kirchner's Argentina , O'Grady asserts ...
... war lasted only 45 days , 255 British troops were killed and 777 seriously wounded in the struggle to regain the ... Dirty War ” against dissidents by discrediting the Argentine junta and contributing to its replacement by a freely ...
Efni
The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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