Indeed, until recently South America (and to a lesser extent East Asia) resembled the Middle East, with immense amounts of wealth being controlled by wealthy elites, and dictatorships propped from the West. Much of Latin America's economic problems are directly due to interference by the United States. The US has a long history of overthrowing governments that are too successful at spreading prosperity in Latin America and replacing them with dictatorships that are more profitable for American commercial interests throughout the region. But there’s sorta been a recent shift in regional balance of power from American interests to a more domestic interests. Brazil and Venzeula are currently the world’s two most successful nations at poverty reduction. They’ve achieved miracles over there. Meanwhile, Egypt has 40% illiteracy rate, out of 80 million people.chinn70 wrote: Then this is the case with every developing country. The rich families enjoy their privileges, while the poor remain the same for years.
And this emergence of South American unity, a good example is the recent stop and search of the Bolivian president’s plane to search for Snowden. Many South American leaders made furious statements about it and they called an emergency meeting of UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) to decide what to do. Kirchner and Rapheal Correa and others mentioned colonialism several times. That's exactly what the Arab world needs, that unity and anti-imperialistic aggression.
