Hot Spot: Latin America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313336614)

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.

Author: David Dent
ISBN-10: 031333661X
ISBN-13: 9780313336614
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2008
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.30w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 97