Unit VII: Contemporary Issues in Latin America & the Caribbean (7/5)

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Issues in Contemporary Mexico
  - Drug cartel influence
  - De-nationalization of PEMEX
  - Return to power of PRI
  - Growth of Mexico's middle class
  - Effects of NAFTA

The Future of Mexico

Issues in Contemporary Central America
  - Drug trafficking and violence; CARSI
  - The return of Oretga in Nicaragua
  - Growing prosperity in Panama

Issues in South America
  - Drug trafficking and the push for legalization
  - Modern leftist movements (Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina)
  - Growth and risks to Colombia
  - The future of Venezuela
  - Brazil: The country of tomorrow?

Corruption in Argentina

          Click here for discussion of Venezuela in 2014

Brazil in 2014

Issues in the Caribbean
  - The future of Cuba
  - Building a functioning Haiti
  - Forming self-sustaining economies in the Caribbean; Caricom
  - Drug trafficking, corruption, and crime plaguing Jamaica & Trinidad

                                                    2007 Panel on Cuba: Post-Fidel