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BTW is there ANY Spanish speaking country that is pro$perou$? In history? ANY?

Try the Spanish Empire, c. 1492 - late 1800's. America should last so long...

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[i]BTW is there ANY Spanish speaking country that is pro$perou$? In history? ANY?[/i]

That got me wondering, so I googled up the CIA World Factbook for this year (figure they know their stuff better than Wikipedia), and looked at the list of GDP/capita.

The rankings were pretty interesting (out of 229 countries, with Zimbabwe being dead last):

Anglo-speaking countries compared to Spanish-speaking

9. Ireland
...
10. USA
...
23. Australia
...
29. United Kingdom
...
33. Spain (highest Spanish-speaking country)
...
43. Equatorial Guinea (Spanish-speaking African country)
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46. New Zealand
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65. Puerto Rico (hey, CIA lists them separate)
...
79. Chile (highest Latin New World country, other than PR)
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83. Argentina
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86. Mexico (highest Latin New World outside S. America)

It’s actually a really interesting list:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html