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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However , recent efforts to link Iran with terrorist activities in the TBA could quickly change the threat level and security concerns in the Southern Cone region . In March 2005 the State Department's office of counter - terrorism ...
FBI and police investigators called the failed plan a " terrorist plot ” with the potential damage far exceeding the devastation from the September 11 , 2001 , attacks on New York and Washington , D.C. U.S. military intelligence has ...
See also Rex Hudson , “ Terrorist and Organized Crime Groups in the Tri - Border Area ( TBA ) of South America ” ( Washington , D.C . ... Chris Zambelis , “ Radical Islam in Latin America , ” Terrorism Monitor , Vol . 3 , No.
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The Meaning of Hot Spot Terminology | 1 |
Mexico | 55 |
Central America | 81 |
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