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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Despite Washington's emphasis on spreading democracy and freedom as foreign policy goals , Americans and Mexicans regard bringing democracy to other countries as a low priority . Both also agree that the United States should not play ...
The psychological dimensions of assessing threats and fears in the conduct of foreign policy will be examined in the entries that make up the major components of this book . The media generate threat perceptions , general fears of other ...
Bush's policy has expanded the number of Border Patrol agents , has increased the capacity at migrant holding centers in ... In 2002 the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations found that opinions on immigration varied greatly between the ...
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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