Why is Latin America undeveloped,?

too much interbreeding with natives

It is one of those things that puzzles me as well. Let's take Argentina. In 1914 it was one of the richest countries in the world. Late 1990s it had incredibly high unemployment and other economic woes.

economist.com/news/briefing/21596582-one-hundred-years-ago-argentina-was-future-what-went-wrong-century-decline

Why did this happen? Because of the constant military coups? Weak institutions? Corruption?

all yours answers are valid but consider also a demographic boom

Go to /pol/ and ask them about their modern state of affairs.

>U are gay

LMAO

I wish the Southern Cone would get it's shit together better
Don't know much about the area but would like to know more
The area looked nice in the 50s/60s

Mexican here, my personal theory is that most Latin Americans have an aversion to values, beliefs and systems they consider European or North American. For example, capitalism and the industrial revolution originated in Europe, ergo, they're imperialist, evil and must be replaced with socialism and agricultural subsidies. Big companies are evil because most of them come from Asia, Europe or North America. Hollywood movies are evil propaganda because they're made in the United States. Countries like North Korea or Venezuela, or groups like ISIS are actually the good guys because they hate America.

Third-world nationalism doesn't help either, they tell you that the oil or water belongs to the people, when it actually belongs to the government. Anti-Americanism and Anti-Europeanism could be valid explanations to why so many people cling to the morally and economic bankrupt ideologies of Marxism and socialism (Although some leftists claim they're social-democrats, but that's as useful as saying you're a white nationalist and not a white supremacist). Of course, morals, responsibility and respect for authority are also seen as European/American ideas, that's why there's so much fucking crime, it also doesn't help that post-modernism and moral relativism started gaining popularity during the 20th century.

They were colonized by the Spanish and Portuguese rather than the British and French

I think OP was referring to Central American shitholes full of injuns and mestizos/mulattos.

Also, isn't Uruguay like 88% European? Thats more European than fucking California!

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Socialism

Not an argument

1. Colonial model
2. Populism
3. Apathy

>British and French
>British and French Africa is suddenly first world
Everytime

The eternal eagle.

Uruguay, Chile and Argentina arent undeveloped, and south of Brazil too... South America isnt comparable to europe, only the territory of brazil is almost bigger then Europe...

Hot weather was shit for industrialization. That and the lack of coal in most countries forced them to become a commodity economy.

I kinda agree with this.

>French South America is not first world

This is bait of the first class

>Uruguay

Uruguay is a shithole compared to any 1st world nation.

Mexicans are malinchista hasta la madre.

The various revolutions against Spain and Brazil fucked things up, and the region hasn't really recovered since. The newly formed states became divided (despite Bolivar's best efforts) and began waging war against one another. Populist military dictators stepped in due to most countries' instability. Most importantly, the Spanish caste system created massive amounts of social inequality, especially when slavery was a common practice before the revolutions. Oh, and American interventionism hasn't helped either (see Guatemala).

Uruguay is nicer than most of the US. Big bags of wealth=/=developed

>caste system
Never implemented

>Uruguay is nicer than most of the US
He said "1st world nation"

Everyone likes to pretend that it isn't race-mixing, but it is race-mixing.

It is no coincidence that the less shittier parts of Latin America, like the Southern Cone or Costa Rica, are also the whitest ones.

>Uruguay is nicer than most of the US.
No it god damn well isn't.

Lower IQ, just like a milder África.

>Why is Latin America undeveloped,?

socialism

Is that why china is a shithole too?

I was going to make a snide remark to you but then i looked at pictures of actual uruguay and have now decided that i would give my left arm to be a uruguayan

What the fuck are you going on about
Big bags of money PRECISELY equals developed

Catholicism and race mixing

Technology and adaptation to technology probably plays a large role. I'm not just talking about science and invention but also social technology. It's a concept that's hard to grasp but the western world has primarily been about exploiting lesser nations and building up their own,

While hard technological advancements may have spread, the ability to build society and retain values has not been accepted as readily.

This

Most countries experienced a dramatic shift to popular democracies, fueled by high minded political science and rhetoric from the Libertadores that was way over their head. The actual power has always been in the hands of elites, who were never interested in improving the life of the common man.

kek

>cherrypicking a small neighborhood with a few skyscrapers
At least you didnt pretend that Montreal was an African city.

This.
Now Punta del Este is Uruguay, do you work for the Ministerio de Turismo or something? We are just fine but don't divulge it.

I don't think people realize how bad the epidemics that killed off the Aztecs and shit were; there was a 95% mortality rate by 1600. Even the Tlaxcalans, who allied with the Spanish early on and were afforded tons of special rights and didn't have their land taken as a result, had their confederacy of city states reduced from a population of 500,000~ before the spanish showed up, to only 700 people by 1625, solely due to diseases.

So you had litterally 95% of the population dead, all of the native culture erased, and you had the entire next generation of mestizos brought up in poverty and uneducated to live as second class citizens.

Is there really any question?

Fuck off Stefan

Brazillian lawyer here,

Our institutions never worked like they should save from episodic moments in history. Patriotism is a rare commodity. Corruption in politics is basically a legal institution. Extremism everywhere, in both right and left wing parties.

Welcome to Brazil. It's hard mode.

Oh yeah, and so you get a glimpse on how inequality works over here, basically 50% of every single brazillian lives without basic sanitation.

That's half a country without a fucking toilet to shit.

>basically 50% of every single brazillian lives without basic sanitation
I find this hard to wrap my head around, how does this actually happen? I've backpacked throigh rural Moldova of all places and they all had toilets.

Romania #1

It is true, you can look it up.
And then comes our major left wing parties saying they want to invest public funds to minimize the inequality, but ask me if they've ever said anything on this subject.

It's all just a business to them, no matter the party. Have you seen the "lava jato" operation? Jesus holy fuck that is the lowest we've ever felt around here and, at the same time, are proud to know that at least our judiciary still lives.

>why is Latin America undeveloped?
agricultural economy when everyone was switching to industrial economies.
>why is there no country there worth living in?
because it's undeveloped?
>why are all Latin American countries so corrupt?
because of the feudal system left by the Spanish

>agricultural economy when everyone was switching to industrial economies.
How do you fund industries without anyone at the farm plowing earth?
>because it's undeveloped?
A butt load of people moves from Asia (in general), Spain, Portugaland so on to Brazil. Don't know the other countries, but the argument is already invalid.
>because of the feudal system left by the Spanish
Actually agree and is historically accurate.

Bamp

No one gives a fuck about anyone else but it just so happens the pursuit of their interests rather than those of the landed elite improved the lot of almost everyone else.

You can't blame everything on communism when Latin America had near-medieval social structure as far as into the early 19th century.

well the simple fact is that amerindians tend to have an average IQ in the 80s. the whiter a country in Latin America is the less of a shithole it tends to be. so genetics probably don't explain all of it but they are obviously a huge factor.

>Have you seen the "lava jato" operation? Jesus holy fuck that is the lowest we've ever felt around here and, at the same time, are proud to know that at least our judiciary still lives.

>the judge was killed in an airplane

holy shit

at least your courts are somehow functional against corruption. Here they're too busy virtue signaling conceding gays the right to marry and adopt but when something about corruption comes out they never want to work, specially since they need to have proofs taken to them by the same executive branch which they want to investigate