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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... insurgencies , Ian F. W. Beckett finds that the urban insurgencies in the late 1960s and 1970s had much in com- mon with international terrorism . What happened in Cuba to bring Fidel Castro to power had more to do with the failures of ...
... Insurgencies and Counter - Insurgencies : Guerrillas and Their Opponents since 1750 ( New York : Routledge , 2001 : 169 ) . 9. David W. Dent , Historical Dictionary of U.S. - Latin American Relations ( Westport , CT : Greenwood Press ...
... Insurgencies in Colombia , 108 , 109 , 201 combating , difficulties in , 34 , 203-204 , 205 in Mexico , 57 Insurgencies ( continued ) U.S. military and counterinsurgency operations , Index 261.
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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