[March I up]

"We promised Capitalism would bring the world out of poverty, and yet many third world countries remain poor. Now they want to know why."

A short answer might be found in the answer to another question: did they truly abandon socialism?

[Christopher Lincoln]

A very good question, and the answer is that at most they modified socialism halfheartedly. But why would we expect anything else when our own elites were praising socialism and warning Latin America not to follow the U.S. down the road to capitalism?

[In veno, veritas]

That is a lot of it, also that there are certain things which were developed in our history that are essential to capitalism that haven't occurred in their's.