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Latin America has been a major source of illicit drugs in the United States for decades. Over the past fifteen years, the U.S. has spent more than $25 billion on source country eradication and interdiction. Despite these efforts, the price of cocaine and heroin are at record lows while purity is at a record high - evidence that these drugs are more available than ever. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 82% of heroin in the U.S. comes from Latin America. Colombia alone produces three-quarters of the world's cocaine supply.
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Latin America’s impact on U.S. life is the theme of the contest, now in its second year. Essays may be submitted in English or Spanish and must be between 200-300 words. Deadline is April 7, 2008. The contest winner will receive six Continental Airlines tickets for travel anywhere in the United States where Continental flies.
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The aboriginal population of Latin America, the Amerindians, experienced tremendous population decline particularly in the early decades of colonization. They have since recovered in numbers, surpassing sixty million, though they compose a majority in only one country, Bolivia. In Peru they are a plurality, while in Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala and Mexico, they are large minorities of more than 25%, per CIA statistics. (Official Mexican figures put Amerindian Mexicans at 13% of the country's population.)[5] Most of the other countries have small Amerindian minorities.
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In 2007, parts of Latin America continued to backslide toward leftist, authoritarian political rule. However, mixed into the record were many positive developments for democracy and free markets. The future of Latin America will have a great impact on the United States' economy, energy supply, and border security. Below is a list of 10 storylines that The Heritage Foundation would like to see take place in 2008—and the U.S. measures that can help them become a reality.
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The United States, Anglophone Canada, Belize, Guyana, and several islands in the Caribbean, who have as their main language English and therefore do not belong to Latin America, may be grouped under the term Anglo-America. Suriname and the Dutch West Indies, where the official language is Dutch... do not belong to Latin America. (On the Dutch West Indies the Latin creole Papiamento is much more spoken than Dutch.)
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Significantly, about 55 percent of Latin America fund managers expect some impact of tighter credit criteria in the United States, but only 21 percent said they expect the impact to be significant. Meanwhile, 8 percent of survey respondents predict little or no impact from U.S. credit issues, and 16 percent said it was too early to tell.
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