If Mexico is only 45 years or so younger than the U.S., why are they so horribly behind the U.S. and others?

Question

The U.S. declared its independence from England in 1776 and Mexico declared their independence from Spain about 45 or so years later.

What the hell happened?

Why is Mexico so miserably far behind?

Forget about billionaires!

Where is Mexico's middle class ?

Where is Mexico's infrastructure ?

Where is any semblance of a standard of living approaching that of the U.S. or Canada ?

Answer 1

Corrupt officials siphoning off the money into their own personal bank accounts. Money that should have gone into schools, hospitals, roads, building up the economy.

Mexico has the natural resources, yet the distribution of wealth goes only to a small percentage of the population.

Answer 2

Mexico is constantly changing leaders, but not in an organized fashion like the U.S. Leaders are consistently being overthrown in Mexico, and there is hardly ever a sense of stability. If you don't have a stable government, you won't have a stable economy, armed forces, etc.

Answer 3

you are mistaken ,mexico has more billionaires than any country in the world, as they dump their problems on amerika. we the people pay 65000 dollars to in prison their criminals and provide social services like , in 1985 san diego alone paid for 85% illegal alien births ,just the tip of the iceberg.now 12 million illegal aliens are breaking the financial back of nearly every state.

Answer 4

Cecil, I would answer that queation, but you'd never get to read it before it is erased.

Answer 5

they have a more laid back lifestyle.