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StarryEyedBeardog t1_j9y4pe9 wrote

Reply to comment by domestic_omnom in [OC] Latin America is the 3rd most democratic region in the world, ahead of Asia and Africa. Here’s where its countries stand: by latinometrics

There's a historic argument that the lack of spanish/portuguese institutions during colonialism in these regions was good for their long-term development. Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica were some of the most ignored and poorest parts of the spanish/portuguese/brazilian empires (Uruguay used to be a brazilian province prior to independence), thus did not inherit the extractivist, cast-based and elite-oriented institutions of the spanish as much as their neighbors, these institutions, one could argue, would be the start of the corruption problems and political strife between the elites that haunts/haunted much of Latin America throughout it's history.

Thus, Chile, Uruguay, and Costa Rica were able to build up their own institutions in a manor that favored development more in the long term and made corruption less present.

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arturocan t1_j9ya7il wrote

Uruguay was a brazilian province for the last like 11 years before independence... you might be giving a bit to much credit to that argument

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StarryEyedBeardog t1_ja0ua3j wrote

Yes, I wasn't trying to say that Uruguay lacked brazilian institutions or that Uruguay had a lesser focus by the spanish empire because of Brazil, I just added that as an extra fact

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brorpsichord t1_ja3hox9 wrote

I don't disagree with you don't the first part, but not inheritting (SP?) Exctractivist, cast-based and elite oriented institutions didn't stoped them from creating their own.

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brorpsichord t1_j9yuz0c wrote

Argentina and Paraguay where arguably less integrated into the empires than Chile and Costa Rica yet there they are, doing worse

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