Why don't Latin American countries develop into developed countries?
The most critical factor is not only the system problem, but the science and technology innovation center based on the system! The capitalist system originated in western Europe, but modern science and technology also originated in western Europe. Ancient civilizations gathered in the Mediterranean, which gave birth to Aegean civilization, ancient Greek civilization and Roman empire, and later gathered into Arab civilization. The Arab Empire also integrated and innovated ancient Greek culture, Gu Taihua culture and ancient Indian culture, and passed them back to Italy Peninsula and Iberia Peninsula in Western Europe, Spain and Portugal, and from Italy and Iberia to France, the Netherlands and Britain. However, the Netherlands and Britain took the lead in realizing political revolution, and scientific and technological innovation took the lead in breaking through in Britain and the Netherlands; Italy split, Iberia split into Spain and Portugal, retaining the monarchy. Southwest Europe, which has the most conditions, has not embarked on a democratic and free society, but a semi-democratic and free and semi-authoritarian society, which has embarked on a single colonial plunder development and failed to realize the innovative development mechanism of science, technology and culture. Iberia cannot achieve scientific and technological innovation by colonial plunder. However, the Netherlands occupied by Spain failed to achieve reunification and adhered to the democratic system, and later degenerated back to ancient times (monarchy). With the complete democracy, freedom and equality of the overhead monarchy, Britain has developed into the most developed scientific and technological innovation center. Then France realized the revolution of political mechanism, replacing the scientific and technological innovation position of the Netherlands, and the descendants of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg degenerated into the third largest scientific and technological innovation center in Western Europe. Therefore, the science and technology innovation center in western Europe is headed by Britain, followed by France and the Netherlands. With the expansion of colonial plunder, Britain, France and the Netherlands occupied undeveloped countries, massacred aborigines with tribes and seized large colonies from backward Spain and Portugal. The North American continent is a colony divided by Britain and France, and it is the center of scientific and technological cultural innovation, and it spreads the developed scientific and technological culture to North America, making the scientific and technological culture in North America far higher than the backward Latin American colonies such as Spain and Portugal from the beginning. With the unification of Italy and Germany, the North American independence movement produced the United States of America, which gathered the developed science and technology culture of Western Europe and became a new science and technology innovation center. Because the British tend to be conservative, scientific and technological innovation is gradually replaced by the United States and Germany, and Japan draws lessons from the rapid development of science and technology in the Netherlands and Germany and comes from behind. After the two world wars, Canada, Australia and New Zealand became independent, and the world formed two scientific and technological innovation centers, the United States and Germany. Japan follows the rapid development of science and technology in the Netherlands and Germany, with Britain, France, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as the eight major scientific and technological powers, and Northern and Central Europe (Switzerland, Austria, etc. ) as a region assisted by science and technology. Latin American countries are Spanish-Portuguese colonies and lack scientific and technological innovation ideas. Although the capitalist system was established later, the idea of innovation and development of science, technology and culture was not imported, and it was always in a state of natural development, neither backward nor advanced. Science, technology and culture have been lagging behind, not as fast as technological innovation in East Asia. By the way, although the Soviet Union was once powerful, it relied on communist enthusiasm and planned development, and science and technology mainly relied on scientific and technological talents snatched from Germany in World War II. Once the communist enthusiasm is over, eating the same pot, political movements lead to personal inertia, lack of innovation mechanism, and finally collapse. Even Russia, which has inherited the greatest legacy, is essentially dictatorial and ruled by man (Putin wants to be president for several times), and lacks a complete democratic and free mechanism to govern the world. Natural lack of national innovation mechanism, weak scientific and technological development. In recent years, Russian light industry technology has been surpassed by China, and its military technology has been gradually overtaken by China. Therefore, the establishment of a democratic and free governance mechanism of national innovation mechanism can only maintain the natural development of science and technology, and it is only the political basis for the development of scientific and technological innovation. However, in order to become the center of scientific and technological innovation and the most powerful country, we must seize the commanding heights and basic platforms of scientific and technological innovation and establish the development strategy of scientific and technological innovation. Latin America and India lack the latter!