Hot Spot: Latin AmericaBloomsbury Academic, 28. feb. 2008 - 288 síður 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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... killed and 777 seriously wounded in the struggle to regain the Falklands . The cost to Argentina was considerably greater : 746 troops were killed and 1,336 wounded in defending their effort to regain sovereignty over the Islas Malvinas ...
... killing them , and then using the information gathered to plan another operation . " 29 In addition to bureaucratic rivalries ... killed when plans go awry . Until he was arrested in Foz do Iguaçu in June 2002 , Assad Mohamed Barakat was ...
... killed , and intimidated the polit- ical opposition ; an economy administered so corruptly that it was often explained as the cost of maintaining peace ; and a United Nations voting record that backed the United States on virtually ...
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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