What Holds Down Latin American Countries

Dennis Prager has an excellent video on this and he gives reasons, starting with corruption: corruption is a breakdown in personal ethics. Too much power in concentrated in individual hands. In the last 4 years much corruption in America at all levels of government. It is depressing. Power corrutps and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Corruption alone will stop societal progress. Second, Preger references Lawerence Harriosn's book, "Whot Prospers?" He calls it "Familism", discrimination based on family. Americans hired based on individual merit and competent, but if are family in South America, are the first hired. Third, socialism: a belief down there that government should be big and should take care of me--no concept of limited government in Latin America. The bigger the government, the less prosperous the country.