OK,a quick summary.According to IMF stats for 2010-2012 Mexico had a per capita GDP that was lower than that of the Seychelles and Gabon (among many others).Guatemala's was lower that that of Mongolia,Namibia and East Timor.Bolivia's was lower than Guatemala's.Argentina's was lower than Equatorial Guinea's.And within Western/Central Europe Spain's was about 75% of that of Ireland,Austria,Switzerland and Germany.And it was close to half of Norway's.
So show me where I'm wrong regarding the "poverty" part of it.
And after we cover the "poverty" question we'll move on to "crime".Can you say "human heads displayed from lamp posts"?
Utter nonsense. You display an alarming lack of logic and critical reasoning skills. I do not question for one moment that there is a level of barbarity in Mexico. Or that there is a huge crime problem in the large cities throughout Latin America not to mention the US and the UK. It is also true that a large number illegal immigrants who are Spanish speaking are involved in violent crimes in the US. Your offensive statement was with respect to the learning of a language per se. It remains a dumb and offensive statement.
Your use of statistics is also totally misleading and the comparisons are silly and naïve. Spain’s GDP per person is higher than New Zealand’s and about the same as Israel. Norway’s GDP is 25% higher that the US (according to the World Bank). Not that it will mean much to someone as prejudiced as you appear to be but they speak Spanish in both Guatemala and Equatorial Guinea!
That is amazing, although I would pick living in Argentina any day over Equatorial Guinea. That miserable country's per capita earnings position comes from off shore oil production almost totally run by and operated by European and North American labor. Still, it is an amazing comedown for Argentina, which in the period of 1900 to 1910 was generally thought to have the highest per capita income in the world. The picture of the opulence of Argentina at this time in Hiram Bingham’s ‘Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru’ published in 1910 is a stark reminder of what can befall nations whose political and social systems have deeply embedded flaws.