re: Why is Mexico so poor?

The English had a really different attitude toward the natives. John Rolfe married Pocahontas for example.

Pocahontas was also recognized as a noblewoman when she came to London.

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Corruption and Cartels, to start.

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Cartels are a product of corruption. Mexico has been poor and corrupt long before the Guadalajara Cartel grew in the 70s and 80s.

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Mexico is actually a country rich in natural resources!!

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So is subsaharan Africa. The issue is transporting those goods. Much like in SubSaharan Africa, the interior of Mexico is on a plateau that is a much higher elevation than the coast lines. As a result, the navigable rivers do not proceed very far inland before they become unusable for boat traffic. In Europe, you have many navigable rivers like the Don, the Danube, the Rhine, the Seine, the Dnieper, Liore, Thames, etc. Canada has the Ottowa River, the St. Laurence, and the Great Lakes which it shares with the U.S. The U.S. has the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, The Hudson, The Quinnipiac, The Delaware, The Columbia, The Potomac, the Rio Grande, the Colorado, etc. These rivers all penetrate hundreds of miles inland from the coast allowing goods to move cheaply from inland to export. Mexico's rivers aren't suitable for ship traffic very far inland from port.

That means that goods have to be moved by less efficient means, railroads and trucks, to connect the population center of Mexico City with coastal ports for export and import. In addition, these mountains and elevation changes make moving goods between regions of Mexico difficult. As a result, the plateau historically struggled to control the provinces that were outside of the plateau without being incredibly authoritarian and heavy-handed.

Nations that cannot easily move goods across them via navigable waterways will struggle economically compared to nations that have large swaths of them accessible via easily traversable waterways.

It's hard for us to comprehend the level of corruption that exists in Mexico. It is at every level. You want your kid, who makes good grades, to go to college? You need to bribe several people. You want to get a decent job or open up a field office in Mexico? Some palms may need to be greased.

Like Communism, the whole thing is just really inefficient and demoralizing for the people and ultimately results in poverty.

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You want your kid, who makes good grades, to go to college? You need to bribe several people.

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No you dont!! Does it happen, sure but it’s not the norm! Same thing happens in the States….let’s quit making shite up!!

It has crappy geography in addition to being corrupted by the Spaniards and wars.

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Nations that cannot easily move goods across them via navigable waterways will struggle economically compared to nations that have large swaths of them accessible via easily traversable waterways.

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Mexico has a highly developed transportation infrastructure, and its economy is far from struggling. Mexico has the 14th largest economy in the world. ranked by exports in 2020 they were 13th in the world, higher than India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, etc. They are the largest exporter of trucks in the world. They are a leading exporter of computers, automotive parts, and oil.

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I’ve pondered this very questions for a couple decades. Why haven’t we built up our neighbor instead of the ccp on the other side of the earth? It certainly isn’t greener.

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The CCP is brutally oppressive to laborers while Mexico is not.

The best way to move Mexico forward is to legalize production, distribution, and consumption of all drugs here in the states. Legalizing it in Mexico as well would really seal the deal.

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The Spanish run the country for their own benefit,

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The Castilians. A group of ruling class Spaniards with Black hair and white skin.

In South America you have Germans and white South Africans who rule behind the scenes.