Question

Which three economic and political crises are Latin America facing today?

Answer 1

Answer:

a.Many people throughout Latin America live in extreme poverty.

d.Drug cartels have become very powerful and wealthy.

e.Latin American refugees are fleeing cartel-controlled areas.

Explanation:

a.Many people throughout Latin America live in extreme poverty.

Most Latin American countries have large economic problems due to the same characteristics: a weak job market, poor salaries, a lack of industrial infrastructure, and indebted governments. The level of poverty varies from one country to the other, but in general terms, the number of people living in extreme poverty is high in the entire region.

d.Drug cartels have become very powerful and wealthy.

Many Latin American countries face the problem of drug trafficking for two reasons. First, since a great portion of Latin America is located around the Equator, its geography is beneficial for the production of many tropical crops, being the raw material of illegal drugs among them. Second, due to the proximity of Latin America to the main centers of drug consumption in the world (the United States), this region has become one of the main locations of production and trafficking of illegal drugs. For these reasons, many drug cartels have become very powerful in the last decades in countries like Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil, among others. This also increases the rate of violence and conflict in these countries.

e. Latin American refugees are fleeing cartel-controlled areas.

Due to the increment of violence attached to drug cartels, many people tend to flee from the areas under cartel control. The immigration within Latin America has increased in the last decades as well as the immigration towards the United States.

Answer 2

The correct answers are A) Many people throughout Latin America live in extreme poverty. D) Drug cartels have become very powerful and wealthy. E) Latin American refugees are fleeing cartel-controlled areas.

These are three economic and political crises that Latin America is facing today: many people throughout Latin America live in extreme poverty, drug cartels have become very powerful and wealthy, and Latin American refugees are fleeing cartel-controlled areas.

Latin America has always being a conflictive region where poverty, lack of opportunities, corruption, and criminal organizations have affected people and limited the growth of the country. Countries such as Colombia that has fought drug cartel such as the Pablo Escobar drug cartel. Indigenous people in Ecuador or Bolivia suffer from extreme poverty. Argentina has lived in a permanent financial crisis since the 1900s.