re: Why is Mexico so poor?

So that's why Argentina is run so efficiently? The corruption is cultural and it goes back generations especially in Mexico. The Spanish emigres of the 30s learned from those who had been there for generations.

I just got back from Mexico City. I was very impressed. It's a beautiful city. Tons of history.Not that expensive either. I drove from Mexico City to Acapulco. Beautiful drive thru the mountains. But very remote. Only 2 cities on that long stretch of highway.
Acapulco was very cheap. But I don't think it's an international tourist destination. Other than me, I saw 4 other white people while I was there.

Plenty of Americans retire in Mexico including a famed economist. i would rather live in Mexico if I had to work in Southern Cali. Drug legalization would do wonders.

So basically you say that the Spanish reinvade Mexico and gain control because they speak the language and the begin exploiting the poor Mexicans after 1935?

And here I thought some of the old line Mexico City families with those big mansions off the Reforma and up in places like Bosques in the mountains, et al were doing a pretty good job

Ok
#1
NOBODY and I mean NOBODY uses the word “peninsulares”.

#2
There’s corruption all over the world, nobody is inmune to it, some countries or cultures have a bigger problem and is more prevalent….no doubt! I mean here in the States our first family is corrupt to the guilds.

Corruption is a cultural part of Latino America, the immigrants did not or were not the cause of it.
In reality most Mexicans not involved in the government want to get rid of corruption and are tired of it! Believe or not a great majority of Mexicans can’t stand it and are honest people but their hands are tied because otherwise you don’t advance! Those holding the corruption strings for the most part work for the government!!

quote:

---

the entire country has poor geography compared to other more successful ones.

---

Huh??? How?

quote:

---

So basically you say that the Spanish reinvade Mexico

---

The Spanish never left. The upper class are the direct descendants of the original Spanish colonists.

We about to find out the same with our corrupt government.

I'm talking about the immigration from Spain during the Spanish Civil War to Mexico. Which it would seem was not necessarily a bad thing. The YouTube video is pretty instructive from a long view context.

The way colonization was conducted and how the two regions evolved are instructive. The key seems to be how the indigenous populations were exploited and indigenous density.