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Hot Spot: Latin America
David W. Dent
Book Code: GR3661
ISBN: 0-313-33661-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33661-4
288 pages, photos; tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/2008
List Price: $65.00 (UK Sterling Price: £37.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Hot Spot Histories
Reviews:
  • The reference work is tailored to serve in a very specific frame of reference and Dent has succeeded in covering Latin America and the Caribbean exceptionally well. Libraries with other Hot Spot volumes and those serving mainly general readers will want to consider this volume for their collections. Recommended.
    —Choice     September 2008
Description: 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:
  • The Zapatista Rebellion
  • the Darien Gap controversy
  • Evo Morales
  • Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and Tupac Amaru
  • the Falklands
  • and Guantanamo Bay.
    • LC Card Number: 2007039198
    LCC Class: F1410
    Dewey Class: 980
    PDF Catalogs:
    Greenwood Spring Reference 2008.pdf
    Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf
    Greenwood History Spring 2008.pdf
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