I would go with number 1 central america.
As part of the Truman Doctrine, Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey. This occurred in 1947 when the U.S. feared greater Soviet and communist influence in these two countries which were facing grave political and economic crises.
No because it disrupts a spicies and can cause that species it to be extinct
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