Due to the press and Internet people get to know a lot of interesting information and the latest news. Numerous newspapers and magazines provide us with the first-hand information. This paper deals with the events and news of Latin America, great and interesting country. Political and social life of this country provides the grounds for numerous discussions and these events are always on the first lines of all local and international newspapers.
The article Monterrey hotel attacked in Mexico kidnappings deals with the latest events happening in Monterrey. Recently, the citizens of Monterrey (Mexico) became the witnesses of the hotel attack, as a result of which three people were kidnapped.
Law enforcement officials, offering only scant details by late afternoon, said it was not immediately clear whether a fourth person was seized or how many gunmen took part in the 3 a.m. attack. Authorities offered no motive for the kidnappings, but the attack bore the hallmarks of Mexico’s drug gang violence (Ellingwood paragraph 3)
Violence connected with the drug bands has spiked during several months in northeastern part of Mexico and broadened over the territories around Monterrey. The choice of the territory is understandable, as Monterrey is the business center of Mexico, it is the biggest metropolitan area of the country. The members of the strile killes the officers and other people, who oposed them. The disorder happening in the country may be explained by the lack of governmental control over the social life. It is the essential and the main problem in Latin America from the times of the Cold War (Skidmore & Smith 35).
There are a lot of different points of view concerning the social and political problems in Latin America. Their solution depends not only upon the government but upon citizens as well. But the main reason of a great number of problems is drug violence and its prevalence in the country.
Works Cited
Ellingwood, Ken. Monterrey hotel attacked in Mexico kidnappings. New York Times. 2010. Web.
Skidmore, Thomas E. and Smith, Peter H. Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition. USA: Oxford University Press, 2005