Peru – crime and especially extortion is on the rise
Bolivia – no fuel, high inflation, blocks every week
Chile – still dealing with migration crisis and its impact on society,
rise in crime rates and overall violence
Argentina – Inflation…Prices as in Switzerland with salaries as in Portugal
Venezuela – no comment
What do you think: Is LATAM going to stabilize in the next 5-10 yrs or will things go further down the road? Where do you see your country?
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Nah no idea. There is no bottom yet. So it could get worse too.
The whole world is changing very quickly right now.
10 years? No clue… except that it probably won’t be good.
The Uruguayans will rapidly start to militarize, and use new technological advancements they have been keeping secret to create anime style mechas.
With this new overwhelming force they will invade Brazil and Argentina and Paraguay, launching what will be known as the first reverse triple alliance war.
During the conflict president Milei will lead an Argentinian counteroffensive, personally leading the troops and charging with his chainsaw. The counter-offensive will be successful, but he will loose a finger to his own chainsaw in the battle.
Now knowing how it feels to have only 9 fingers Milei will reconcile with president Lula, and together they will create the 18 fingers pact, a military alliance of every other continental Latin American country to counter Uruguayan aggression.
After initial Uruguayan gains the war will reach an stalemate, with Uruguay annexing most of the southern cone. The Chileans wage a brutal Guerrilla warfare in the Andes, but most of them and Argentinians end up as refugees in Venezuela.
Afraid of getting overextended Uruguay proposed peace. France, being the only non Latin American country with territory in mainland South America acts as mediator and the treaty of Versailles is signed.
Many claim that this peace cannot stand, and the abusive terms of the treaty of Versailles had not achieved the end of hostilities, but rather a 20 year armistice. Spies from the borders claim that Uruguay is building even larger giant death robots, while leaked reports reveal that deep in the Amazon the 18 fingers pact is using genetic engineering to modify dinosaurs from Acre for warfare. The rest of the world is also tense, knowing very well that after Uruguay is done with Latin America they will probably be next…
I mean, Mexico’s crime situation cant get any worse, right? RIGHT?
Idk, nothing is ever certain in (most) of Latam. Not even the past is certain here, let alone the future. Complete roller coaster ride.
My prediction for Argentina:
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Probably Argentina will fix their economy and Gran Colombia will reunite.
Crime by both state and non-state actors will get worse that’s for sure.
Quality of life will go up because population growth slowed down and GDP per capita will go up. In other words, the future looks like a smaller and wealthier Latin America. It’s good that those damn fertility rates finally fell to those seen in developed countries. I see crime in Mexico still being pretty high, but hopefully people will have higher wages and an overall higher HDI.
Very hard to say. Ecuador was one of the safest LatAm countries a decade ago. Now it’s arguably the worst. El Salvador went in the completely opposite direction.
I read that criminal groups in Southern Brazil are becoming more formal, which hopefully is a sign that they will focus more on financial crimes rather than violent ones.
South america surely will get better as long as it keeps fighting fascism. There are plenty advances on every front on most countries, got to look the big picture, not what the biased newspapers tell you.
Central and North, not so much.