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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... drug trafficking remains one of the major threats to the United States , and Washington spends approxi- mately $ 500 million per year to combat the production , distribution , and transshipment of drugs through the Americas . U.S. ...
... 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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