Locality of Terrorism

Due to the de-centralized nature of terrorism i.e. the fact that most do not have a physical piece of land it might make it hard to answer the question where does terrorism come from. I think most would say that the Middle East or Asia seems to have a lot terrorists groups based out of this part of the world. Because I am a Latin American Studies major I try to take a spin from the Latin American side of things. When I was thinking about I couldn’t really think of any terrorist organizations or major terrorist attacks that have occur din that region of the world. But the FPRI site has reports grouped by region and I was surprised to find that one of the largest mentions of terrorism in Latin America was that of Drug Cartels. As we are discussing how to define terrorism it is interesting to include this thought as well: Can terrorism be financially motivated as well as political and whatever other reason?