Latinoamerican Dictatorships

>>2638228
so?

>>2638204
For Mexico, I feel like it stems from Maximilian and Benito being apart of the Mexican Empire

>>2638204
it avoided dictatorship by becoming a one party state

>>2638204
American interventionism.

The alternative Mexico got wasn't much better. Mexican governments seem doomed to eternal callousness and ineptitude.

So close to America, so far from God.

>>2638204
Mexico avoided getting couped because all the shit they did that interfered with the United States happened during Presidencies that wanted good relations with Latin America, i.e. FDR and Kennedy.

Also this >>2638398

The PRI ran Mexico with an iron fist.

Mexico would have, and probably still would today, benefit from a military dictatorship especially if the dictator was of the benevolent variety like an Ataturk or Kuan Yew. Someone with the stomach to do the ugly work of cleaning out the corrupt bureaucracies and cartel controlled military.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if the US quietly installs someone like that in the next decade, especially if the situation down there gets worse and threatens to spill over the border.

>>2638419
>So close to America, so far from God.

This meme quote needs to die. Diaz never said that.

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>>2638939
>yfw trump installs a Mexican president who promises to MAKE MEXICO GREAT AGAIN by refilling the basin of mexico
>yfw Tenochtitlan 2.0

>>2638402
this

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>>2638939
>>2639192
It's too good to be true, they'd overthrow his ass right when he starts going against American interests. And if he was truly a dictator that wanted what's best for the Mexican people, he'd break free from his American handlers. The cycle cannot be broken.

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>>2638939
>Mexico would have, and probably still would today, benefit from a military dictatorship especially if the dictator was of the benevolent variety like an Ataturk or Kuan Yew.
pic related was LITERALLY that. His bureaucracy grew but worked on patronage though. but he also defanged the military as a force in politics, so what do you mean about the cartels.

>>2639192
>use ecological restoration project as a guise to evacuate gorillions of mexicans from the capital phnom penh style
would be cool desu

>>2638204
Mexico spent the 19th Century having shitloads of dictatorships and eventually got tired.

>>2639192
Such a damn shame. Mexico has the potential to be a cultural powerhouse with its Aztec origins but it keep pissing it away

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>>2639684
>implying Mexico doesn't have an incredibly rich national and regional culture(s) that gets denigrated by American conceptions (i.e. Tex-Mex = Mexican cuisine)

but hey nothing wrong with a little human sacrifice

>>2639432
the thing with Diaz is, as you said, he wasn't a military dictator in the colloquial sense due to his lack of reliance on the military and economic tanking

>>2639859
Why did we destroy their whole civilization again?

>>2639192
Why do people keep memeing lake texcoco


It was a fucking drainage lake. It had ni exit. It was not beautifulband pristine it was a shit and mud filled puddle of stagnant water with a giant city in the middle and nowhere for the water to drain.


Have you ever been to the Salton Sea? It was that.

It would not be an improvement. It would be a garbage filled mosquitoe infested diaper floating disgusting mess.

And it was probably nasty when cortes got there too they just had lower standards.

>>2639874
Becuase 16th century Spaniards thought their civilization was better and the Aztecs were heathens

also, more relevant in terms of human/physical destruction, is disease. this is why the majority of Amerindians died post-contact with Euros.

>>2638939
> Someone with the stomach to do the ugly work of cleaning out the corrupt bureaucracies

Those types of guys a;ways install their own cronies as a replacement.

>>2639886
>What is a lake?