Poor Little Latin American Countries

The Global North abused poor little Latin American countries. The global north used the poor Latin American countries to benefit them and only them. In order to keep up with the Global North, Latin American has allowed itself to be misled and has misused states funds for capital gain instead of investing in their own country’s transportation, education, and health care leading to a lower-income in most of its population.

Latin America has allowed other countries to come in and use/run it’s natural resources and then turn around and make it cost too much for the people to use. Latin American governments poorly manage their natural resources, and have allowed companies from other countries who promised them big money to take over the management …show more content…
Globalization has not worked for the smaller poorer countries. Globalization policies voted on by Latin American governments have allowed larger governments to come in and take advantage of trade agreements and national industries while convincing the local governments to cut human services. “They cut back social spending, privatized national industries, weakened the power of organized labor, deregulated the financial sector, and did away with trade barriers that protected local manufactures and peasant producers.” Globalization and outside governments left the people of many Latin American countries without the ability to make money on their hard work. It left them to work harder for less money. Globalization is causing the Latin American countries to abandon the poor to profit the …show more content…
Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Due to its government’s inability to maintain the education system, families with a higher income can opt to use private education while the poor are left with the option of an inadequate public education and often drop out to help earn income to help the family unit. “The government 's failure to improve the Bolivia school system, has led to a surge in privately owned institutes, schools and universities in Bolivia”. Only the rich in Bolivia can send away their children to private schools. Spain, which considers itself to be an influence and advocate for Latin America in the European Union, also has a state run education system, but its children must attend school no less than ten years and then are either sent to their equivalent of High School so they can attend Universities or they go on to a trade school. “Once the required schooling is finished, a student can then opt to continue on to high school or move on to a vocational school. Only those who finish high school can be admitted into a university.” Because of Spain’s sufficient educational system of a mandatory ten years of school allows them to go on to universities and then have better high paying jobs. Although better than most Latin American countries, only 60 percent of Bolivian