Why is Mexico poor and Canada is abundant? Even Both are neighboring

>fake italy vs fake peru

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Canada had more stability in it's history and was closely supported by the UK
Mexico spent it's first 120 years of independence either in civil war or defending against foreign invasions including from the USA 3 times France twice and so on.
Still, Mexico only has inequality in its citizens because as a nation is very rich, we are still the 16th largest economy in the world

>>74371650
Do you hate Spainish Imperialists?

>>74371947
Spanish*

>>74371947
No, Spain is now a close friend, we held their civil war refugees and supported the Spanish republic and shit
We call it "La madre patria", only left wing faggots can "hate" Spain

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When Mexico became independent, it was decimated by a 10 year long war. That war left Mexico being poor so the pre-existing peace treaty with the nomadic tribes from the North was broken, as they depended on the things the government of New Spain gave them in exchange of not hunting down and raiding settlements there. At the same time, we faced and fought multiple rebellions (Republic of Texas, Republic of the Rio Grande, Republic of Yucatán, Republic of Lower California (U.S. Filibusters), Republic of Sonora (U.S. Filibusters), Republic of Zacatecas, Republic of Jalisco, Separatists in Tabasco, etc.) while being invaded by Spain from the nearby Island of Cuba, and an occupied fort within Mexico, since they wanted to regain control of the colonies starting with us. In the middle of all the shitfest, France took advantage of some damaged French bakeries due to the war, so they made ridiculous petitions (demanding us to pay up to 600 times more than the total costs of the damages done, money Mexico didn't have), and took the opportunity to blockade our ports and invade with the help of the U.S. Later on, the UK was plotting to expand to California and invade from Oregon, but was stopped short when the US invaded instead.
Meanwhile, the government in Mexico couldn't decide whether to be an empire, a republic, conservative, liberal, go back to Spain or become a French colony (there were people in favour and against all of that), so civil war within the factions wanting to take control of the government also broke out. This led to several military dictatorships led by generals who took advantage of the situation to raise to power and fucked us even more.

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>>74372173
Moreover, at the time, Mexico/New Spain (with pretty much the same demographics as present day Mexico) was still struggling the effects of the caste system. Since the times of the colony, only Spain born Spaniards had access to education and governing powers, and the majority of the population, mestizos, Amerindians and American-born Spaniards, were malnourished, illiterate, poor, and worked almost like slaves in mines and haciendas owned by the rich. Especially Amerindians and mestizos.
This very same uneducated people would move out to vote time and time again for the shittiest presidents you could ever imagine, so dictatorships, repression, poverty, corruption, perpetuated even further in a vicious cycle.
And every time a true Mexican hero would rise to try an improve things, he would be deposed by other generals/politicians who wanted power all to themselves and heir friends.

We would later be invaded by France again, in the name of Frenchaboo Mexicans who wanted to be part of Spain, and war broke down again. France fucked off in the end, but a dictator took office for the next 30 years until another war, the revolution, broke out against him. In the shitfest, after the revolutionaries won, and fair elections were held, another wannabe dictator staged a coup with the help of the US ambassador, and the revolution war restarted. After a series of betrayals, the war prolonged for 10 years, 10% of the Mexican population died, war against the church started again, a period of stability finally came, and then the government became a nepotist state keeping the population uneducated and poor in order to steal everything for themselves, sold out to neoliberalism, drug war came, and here we are.

And don't even get me started on the times where New Spain lost 80% and 50% of its total population consecutively, thanks to two different epidemics respectively.

>tl;dr: wars, invasions, dictators, corruption and general bad luck a shit

I don't know about Canada.

>>74372206
>Frenchaboo Mexicans who wanted to be part of Spain
*part of France

>>74371650
Being one of the largest economies is pointless if the people are not seeing it.

>>74372073
are indigenous generally leftists? why do the left hate spain?

>>74372431
Not entirely, just propaganda of "WE WUZ" but in a extreme manner
>>74372335
Point taken
We are still not as bad as we were a couple of decades ago

>>74372431
Nobody hates Spain. Only a tiny minority of fringe leftists, who don't matter and are basically upper middle class mostly white nu-males, hates Spain.
Indigenous people living in indigenous communities might as well be in a different country, they aren't right wing, left wing, or anything, they just are. Some of them are extreme communism leftists, tho, but they live in the jungle and nobody cares about them anymore. They don't bother anyone, nobody bothers them back.
Indigenous people living in cities, are whatever, left, right, centre, nothing, like everybody else.

>>74371650
We fought with Canadians too and they also had some failed revolts. I think it has to do with Britain being a better colonial master to them than Spain was to you.

>>74372780
You fought Britain, not Canadians.
Fighting a non-weakened New Spain, with total support of a non-weakened Spanish Empire and Spain, would have been a completely different war, than the Mexican-American war.

>>74371051
Because Mexico is filled with Mexicans

>>74372173
>>74372206
This

>>74371051
Canada wasn't a real country until 1982. Still isn't, really.

boring thread check this 4

>>74371051
one is white and another isn't.

>>74371051

Mexico has less natural resources than Canada, and 4 times the population.
That doesnt explain all the difference, but it explains much of it.

Argentina could be a first world country if we had 15 million people instead of 40, just from being natural resources niggers.