Latin America after independence in its process of establishing democracy we can see how many of the economies majorly grew. Most of them grew under the basis of an “export Oligarchy”, it is named “Oligarchy” because the economies were export based economies however only a small elite group of the population, mostly the landowners benefited from this growth. So this growth brought inequality between classes and made them even more evident. The global economy grew in a way in which Latin america would provide raw materials to the US and European countries and they would provide manufactured goods. You might see this as a fair distribution specially because the region was developing itself economically. However it was not. These form of economy created a huge dependency on the western economies, so whenever they had a boom it was a good time for Latin america as well, but when it was a bad time this was reflected terrifically in these region. Some historians even argue that Latin America never had a true independence, but rather replaced its colonizer master from Europeans to the United States.

Another interesting observation to make in Post Colonial Latin America is that in many of these countries democracy was not being actually archive. We can look at the situation of Mexico and Diaz who governed for 34 years. One of the arguments he makes on his interview is that people at the time were too ignorant to have democracy and be able to chose their own leaders, as well as Mexicans had too much of an individual mentality when it came to politics, only thinking about the self benefit and ignoring what is actually better for the society as whole. While I read this I was questioning whether he was right, and somehow still is, because democracy is not present today in Latin america today even, and people are still thinking only about their own benefit, this being the reason for so much corruption across our nations. As nations and individuals of society we must stop being so ignorant and seek for a better kind of democracy than the current one.