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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5242736" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Actually far southern Brazil is known for the large German population along with the others you cited.  Argentina is just over half Italian and they brought their economics with them.  It's now in financial ruin.  Uruguay and Chile are run pretty well.  But I digress.  In every Latin America country you have pockets of prosperity.  It's not that the population doesn't want to do better.  They have a history of strongmen hogging the wealth for themselves.  Mexico is doing much better these days due to their population size and proximity to the U.S.  A lot of development there.  But still plenty of poverty.  We shouldn't be shocked at a 40% poverty rate in a poor country when we ourselves are close to 20%.</p></blockquote><p></p>