Hot Spot: Latin America

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Greenwood Press, 2008 - 270 síður
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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.

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:

  • Zapatista Rebellion

  • Darien Gap controversy

  • Evo Morales

  • Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and Tupac Amaru

  • Falklands

  • Guantanamo Bay

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Corruption and incompetence remain the hallmarks of Mexico's police , and during President's Fox's term in office , efforts to reform the police and criminal justice system stalled because of congressional opposition .
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With weak police , intelligence , and military institutions , the increase in violence has overwhelmed local law enforcement agencies . Efforts to thwart the growing impact of organized crime and gangs in Guatemala have been undermined ...
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The discovery of police documents in Guatemala City confirmed an earlier UN commission's finding that the National Police helped identify and kill leftists during its 1960–1996 civil war . The Guatemalan army was responsible for most of ...

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David W. Dent is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Latin American Relations (Greenwood, 2005), Encyclopedia of Modern Mexico (2002), The Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine: A Reference Guide to U.S. Involvemenet in Latin America and the Caribbean (Greenwood, 1999), and the co-author of Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations (1998). Dent is the author of over 100 articles, essays, and chapters on Latin American and U.S.-Latin American relations. For over 30 years he has been a contributing editor of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, a biannual reference book published by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

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TitillHot Spot: Latin America
Hot spot histories, ISSN 1934-631X
HöfundurDavid W. Dent
Editionillustrated
ÚtgefandiGreenwood Press, 2008
Original fromTexas-háskóli
Digitized21 júlí 2008
ISBN031333661X, 9780313336614
Length270 síður
  
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