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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... failed or are failing such as Haiti , Colombia , Peru , and Ecuador . From Washington's perspective , the secu- rity concern associated with failed states is what they can export to the rest of the world : international terrorists ...
... failed states are in Africa and Asia . Among the nineteen Latin American countries in the study , Haiti scored highest as a failed state , followed by Colombia , the Dominican Republic , Guatemala , Bolivia , and Nicaragua in the top ...
... failed states index are more likely to contain security - based hot spots that threaten Latin America's democratic regimes . However , Colombia's fail- ing state and the violence associated with armed actors there have not in themselves ...
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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