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  2. Crime and violence in Latin America - Wikipedia

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    Crime and violence affect the lives of millions of people in Latin America.Some consider social inequality to be a major contributing factor to levels of violence in Latin America, [1] where the state fails to prevent crime and organized crime takes over State control in areas where the State is unable to assist the society such as in impoverished communities.

  3. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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    The European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (ERLACS) ( Spanish: Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe) is a open access, [1] peer-reviewed academic journal published semi-annually by the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation in Amsterdam, which serves as a hub for Latin American research in ...

  4. Latin America–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    Bilateral relations between the various countries of Latin America and the United States of America have been multifaceted and complex, at times defined by strong regional cooperation and at others filled with economic and political tension and rivalry. Although relations between the U.S. government and most of Latin America were limited prior ...

  5. Latin American debt crisis - Wikipedia

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    Mexico Crude oil prices from 1861 to 2011. The Latin American debt crisis (Spanish: Crisis de la deuda latinoamericana; Portuguese: Crise da dívida latino-americana) was a financial crisis that originated in the early 1980s (and for some countries starting in the 1970s), often known as La Década Perdida (The Lost Decade), when Latin American countries reached a point where their foreign debt ...

  6. Crisis in Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 October 2024. Socioeconomic and political crisis in Venezuela in the 21st century This article is about the socioeconomic and political crisis in Venezuela. For other uses, see Venezuelan crisis (disambiguation). This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the ...

  7. United States involvement in regime change in Latin America

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    v. t. e. The participation of the United States in regime change in Latin America involved US-backed coup d'états which were aimed at replacing left-wing leaders with right-wing leaders, military juntas, or authoritarian regimes. [ 1 ] Intervention of an economic and military variety was prevalent during the Cold War.

  8. Latin American Politics and Society - Wikipedia

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    Latin American Politics and Society. Latin American Politics and Society is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of Latin American studies. It is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for Latin American Studies of the University of Miami [1] and the editor-in-chief is Alfred P. Montero ( Carleton College ).

  9. Liberation theology - Wikipedia

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    Liberation theology was influential in Latin America, [2] especially within Catholicism in the 1960s after the Second Vatican Council, where it became the political praxis of theologians such as Frei Betto, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Leonardo Boff, and Jesuits Juan Luis Segundo and Jon Sobrino, who popularized the phrase "preferential option for the poor".