Actually, I read on a thread somewhere that Mexico is considered a rich nation by the United Nations.
It is a very wealthy country. It's got the second largest oil reserves in the western hemisphere, many natural resources, and competes in number of billionaires with Great Britain and Germany. They have democracy but they have a very corrupt system and culture ---and most of the people are socialists when you come down to it. The majority of Mexico's conservatives left at the time of the Mexican Revolution, what's coming over now isn't conservative.