Vulnerable to natural disasters, the region will be one of the main theatres in the battle against climate change
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskThe books that offer a single explanation—dependency, colonialism, Iberian culture or institutions—of Latin America’s relative failure are invariably wrong. Its difficulties stem from the interplay of all these factors and more. But geography, often ignored, is one, as Sebastián Mazucca, an Argentine political scientist, explained in a book published in 2021.
Latin America’s rich endowment of natural resources has powered booms and busts, attracted covetous foreigners and provided the broth for the red meat of populism—a blame game about why people are poor if the earth is so rich. Another geographical factor, remoteness from the main centres of the world economy, has hurt trade and investment.almost nine years ago Latin America was advancing. Poverty was falling steadily and so was income inequality.
But this progress was flattered by a commodity boom. It soon waned. Over these past nine years the region has seen no growth in. Political instability is increasing while seemingly immovable dictators rule Venezuela, Nicaragua and now El Salvador. Organised crime has extended its bloody tentacles, from Mexico to Chile and Paraguay.
Take a longer view, and not everything is as gloomy. Your columnist began to live in Latin America exactly 40 years ago and has done so for almost half of the period since then. Over these decades the region’s societies have in some ways become more egalitarian. Nowhere else in the developing world is the idea of human rights now so widely shared.
Culturally Latin America thrives. The world is swaying its hips to Latin music. Latin American literature has moved into the mainstream, led by a cohort of young writers, many of them women. Latin American food, from
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