Clever, you got me there.
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To be more specific and less snarky, there's a massive difference between the political system in the US and Mexico and Central America, especially on a local level. As an example, one day a few years ago a drunk driver managed to crash into the transformer box in front of my building, completely knocking out power. I'd returned from living in my wife's country south of the border just a few months before so I instinctively despaired and prepared myself for days, or possibly weeks, without power. Instead, the city government dispatched a crew within a few hours and it was all fixed with a new transformer installed and power restored by that evening.
We'd have been without power for a very long time if this had happened in my wife's country, unless we were fortunate enough to live close to someone with money and clout who was also affected, in which case it would have been fixed quickly. According to people down there who are old enough to remember the military dictatorship, things were vastly more organized and efficient for everyday people, not to mention safe. People generally didn't lock their doors when they went out, whereas now it's got one of the highest crime rates in the world and everything that's not nailed down constantly gets stolen.
One reason for this is that back then under the military dictatorship, corrupt local officials were actually punished harshly. Also, petty thieves were literally stripped naked and frog marched through town while people jeered and threw rotten fruit at them before they were taken off to prison. This would be considered cruel and unusual punishment in the US, but it worked for them. The current president of El Salvador is actually bringing back a lot of the old harsh "cruel and unusual" methods against the gangs that have ruled the country for years and he's making progress, while also being accused of being a dictator and violating human rights by the current US regime. He's also hugely popular in the country because people were very tired of de facto rule by organized crime.
That's another example of what I meant by people in Latin America being better off without a system that tries to ape what we've got in the US or the UK. Basically, in ethnically Aztec and Mayan areas they need a system that's a modern update of what their ancestors had, not something slowly developed in Great Britain over the course of centuries and then implemented among Anglo-Saxons in the former colonies of the UK. If you think about it, their trying to ape US government makes about as much sense as Americans trying to base their government on whatever it is they're doing in China based on the fact that China does a lot of things right.
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