Terrorism In Latin America Critical Thinking Examples

US concern in the issue of terrorism in Latin American countries has been developing during several decades of the events in the continent which followed by the example of Marxists were meant to overthrow elected government. Colombia which remains one of the leading countries by number of terrorist attacks, Peru, Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua were among the most active countries in terrorist repressions during the decade of 1980-1990 (Wright, 2007).
Marxism has been regarded by the population of Latin America as the most acceptable form of governance after the cooperation with the USSR which also struggled to have such system for a basis. There is a number of countries in Latin American continent where the dictatorship is the main governing force, and poverty and social inequality are life foundations. That is why Marxist parties and organizations have been formed, with the purpose of struggling the old regime, just as the Cuban organizations, in its turn, headed by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara (Sullivan, 2005).
History of domestic terrorist acts spreads to several individual cases which were mainly based on the psychological disorders of the terrorists as it is believed by the psychologists considering cases, as, for example, the terrorist act organized by Adam Lanza who fatally shot a large amount of pupils and school stuff in 2012, in Connecticut. Also, such organizations as formerly existing Ku Klux Klan have been organized as a result of non-acceptance of specific ethnic groups in the society. Nowadays, Americans gradually learn to live together respecting each other; number of African-American graduates and workers on the heading positions increases with each year and the problem seizes to exist. Besides, recent polls show the level of satisfaction of the local population with the government and acting state forces, which makes the possibility of emerging of a threat of domestic terrorism less probable.

References

Sullivan, M. (2005). Latin America terrorism issues. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Wright, T. (2007). State terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and international human rights. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.