Latin American Economy

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This paper examines how Latin America is a geographic area often described as including all of the countries south of the United States border, which is incredibly diverse culturally, linguistically, and politically. It attempts to show how, despite this diversity, the region holds significant, interlocking similarities in its micro and macro economic landscapes. It also explores the tremendous influence the powerhouse economies of the United States and Europe have held over the region as a whole and how the area has been largely subordinated to the interests and wills of those countries.

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"Indeed, the great difficulty with a dependence-based economy is the extreme difficulty (many would say impossibility), of an emergence from the trend. Many would assert that once the pattern is established, it stays that way, regardless of effort to the contrary (look at Brazil, for example). This is simply because humans naturally resist suffering, and populations will push for governments that will release them from overwhelming hardship that independence after years of dependence will require. If the population can get a leader that will reduce suffering through loans (and the IMF and other investors are willing to extend them), then they will. Further, if, in the long term, those who offer the loans require the same types of measures that the population was suffering from in the first place, then one will see a case like Argentina."

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