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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government quickly pulled its troops out of Iraq and later imposed a $ 25,000 fine on Your Solutions for violating the country's labor laws.98 The decline of public support in the United States for the Iraq war and the growing doubts ...
32 China's growing military ties in Latin America mean that Washington can no longer count on the intelligence and security domination it once had in the Western Hemisphere . China is making progress in its grand strategy to become a ...
A growing alliance of leftist leaders in Latin America — Hugo Chávez in Venezuela , Rafael Correa in Ecuador , and Evo Morales in Bolivia — is challenging U.S. drug policy , accusing the United States of hypocrisy on the basis of its ...
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Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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