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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... trade , which has allowed narco - traffickers to acquire better weapons than those employed by their own armed forces . Why should Latin America do something about drug trafficking if the United States is unwilling to take more ...
... cocaine into the United States between 1990 and 2002. After pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges in Miami in 2006 , each brother was sentenced to 30 years in prison and agreed to forfeit $ 2.1 billion in assets linked to the drug ...
... drug - producing country and its level of internal consumption is considered low means that it not seen as a threat or hot spot because of drug trafficking ; however , the U.S. government does not believe that the Cubans are serious ...
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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