For example, civil wars in Central American during the 1980s and 1990s pushed many Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans into the area. The Andean drought of the 1970-1980s prompted Peruvians and Bolivians to relocate, and revolutions in the Caribbean in the last 1950s and 1960s transported Cubans and Dominicans.
Latino population remains an important issue.
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