[Cicero]

It's dangerous. I don't know what it is about Latin America, but they seem incapable of governing themselves. Everything goes to extremes. For two hundred years virtually every country in Central and South America has swung between right-wing tyrants and left-wing tyrants, with short-lived periods of unstable and corrupt democracy.

Joseph Conrad got it right a hundred years ago in his greatest novel, "Nostromo."

[FITZ]

I don't know what it is about Latin America, but they seem incapable of governing themselves.

It's the lack of a large middle class. You either get the elites ruling or the peons ruling and either is a disaster.