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re: Why is Mexico so poor?
Posted on 4/12/22 at 7:45 pm to teke184
Posted on 4/12/22 at 7:45 pm to teke184
Add to the lack of deepwater ports, no navigable rivers, and the whole country is mountains or jungle. Infrastructure doesn’t exist to transport raws or finished goods easily and cheaply.
Contrast that to the USA with more deep water ports and navigable rivers in key useful places than anywhere else in the world. And our navigable rivers and canals reach to a fertile heartland.
But the system of government keeps Mexico down too.
Contrast that to the USA with more deep water ports and navigable rivers in key useful places than anywhere else in the world. And our navigable rivers and canals reach to a fertile heartland.
But the system of government keeps Mexico down too.
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Posted on 4/12/22 at 7:55 pm to L.A.
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So why is Mexico so poor?
The same reason most non Western countries are poor:
corruption and a shitty legal system that fails to protect basic property rights.
Posted on 4/12/22 at 8:16 pm to 76Forest
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Add to the lack of deepwater ports, no navigable rivers, and the whole country is mountains or jungle. Infrastructure doesn’t exist to transport raws or finished goods easily and cheaply.
Mexico has 5 major seaports, two are deepwater, one of those is one of the largest the pacific. It has a highly developed transportation infrastructure making moving goods to the coastline areas very efficient. All of this is why Mexico is the largest exporter of trucks in the world, a major exporter of computers, automotive parts, and oil. For 2020! the country ranked ranked 13th in the world in terms of exported goods.
Posted on 4/12/22 at 8:59 pm to EA6B
Mexico is the second largest exporter of kitchen appliances (refrigerators, stoves, washers, driers, etc) in the world behind only china.
Posted on 4/12/22 at 9:16 pm to andyv95
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Mexico is the second largest exporter of kitchen appliances (refrigerators, stoves, washers, driers, etc) in the world behind only china.
Thank you, I don’t understand these people that make statements based on what they remember from 8th grade geography class that was taught from a text printed in1971. The world changes, people should try to learn about it.
Posted on 4/13/22 at 11:24 am to KiwiHead
Sounds about right!
Posted on 4/13/22 at 11:27 am to RoscoeSanCarlos
Volcanoes, sink holes, Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and earthquakes doomed Mexico years ago.
Posted on 4/13/22 at 11:29 am to trinidadtiger
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Read up on your boy Carlos Slim
Ironically, not even ethnically Hispanic at all. He's like Salma Hayek, a Lebanese person born in Mexico.
It always made me wonder what he had to do to rise to power in a place like Mexico that has people in power who, as this thread states, literally trace their heritage back to Spain.
Posted on 4/13/22 at 11:30 am to L.A.
The same reason La is so poor x 100.
Posted on 4/13/22 at 12:49 pm to RoscoeSanCarlos
A buddy of mine from Columbia used to say that Bolivar was not quite the George Washington type that history books like to paint him as.
Posted on 5/3/22 at 7:35 pm to trinidadtiger
No. Creole were the French born in France. Cajuns were French descended from Acadians.
Posted on 5/3/22 at 7:36 pm to LRB1967
Actually lots of wealthy and middle class Mexicans are moving to America too now.
Posted on 5/3/22 at 7:36 pm to L.A.
Posted on 5/3/22 at 7:37 pm to JayDeerTay84
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corruption
Who was the dipshit that down voted this post? Damn.
Posted on 5/3/22 at 7:44 pm to L.A.
No matter how you slice it...drugs and corruption is the answer!
Posted on 5/3/22 at 7:54 pm to Lima Whiskey
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Geography, demographics, culture.
One of the interesting contrasts is between Juarez and El Paso. It's predominately the same culture divided by the Rio Grand and cultural, legal and criminal justice differences -- and gun control.
Guns are effectively banned in Mexico and El Paso is in Texas. Cartels are armed to the teeth in Juarez and the people are disarmed. The good people of El Paso have Texas gun control. Juarez has a murder rate in the 130/100,000 range. El Paso is typically < 2/100,000.
Posted on 5/3/22 at 7:55 pm to L.A.
Geography, natural resources, lack of a port.
If the US wasn't so prosperous Mexico would look a lot like their neighbors to the south.
If the US wasn't so prosperous Mexico would look a lot like their neighbors to the south.
Posted on 5/3/22 at 8:20 pm to L.A.
CORRUPTION at the highest levels.
Posted on 5/3/22 at 9:43 pm to L.A.
Posted on 5/3/22 at 9:56 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Geography, natural resources, lack of a port.
If the US wasn't so prosperous Mexico would look a lot like their neighbors to the south.
Mexico would be surprised to learn this. Mexico has 5 major ports 2 are deepwater, one of which is one of the largest on the Pacific.
Mexico is the second largest exporter of kitchen appliances (refrigerators, stoves, washers, driers, etc) in the world behind only china.
This post was edited on 5/3/22 at 9:58 pm
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