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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With the support of poor indigenous farmers and laborers , who make up the 40 percent of the population considered extremely poor by the World Bank , Morales will have to balance demands to solve poverty by nationalization of the energy ...
80 Using oil as a weapon , President Chávez has subsidized samba parades in Brazil , eye surgery for poor Mexicans , and heating fuel for poor families in the United States itself . At least thirty countries around the world have ...
See also War on terrorism Gold , 166 , 196 , 197 Governance challenges to , 98 , 101 counterterrorism , role in , 176 erosion of , 16 good , promotion of , 7 poor as hot spot factor , 7 , 204 poor , consequences of , 23 responsible ...
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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