root reasons for Argentina's decline

[pigeonhole]

I believe that woman Kirchner has a huge responsibility in the decline of today's Argentina. I don't understand how that incompetent (and dangerous)ideologue has not been ousted yet. A woman who patronizes the Pope (an Argentinian man) over the correct use of a teapot for Maté (how tactless).A woman who advocates war over the petrol rich continental plateau under the British Falkland islands, just as the military junta did. A woman whose main preoccupations besides waging war for oil to resolve the current economic crisis are gay marriage and transgender rights. Poor Argentinians!

[Motion]

The country's current situation.

President Cristina Kirchner’s lauded economic policies are unravelling as the country sinks into a long-predicted crisis...

Argentina

[yofie]

I have a feeling that Argentina, unique among Latin American countries, has had all of the following factors put together that put Argentina down the road to terrible decline starting in the 1930s-1940s:

1) Latin-type polity (e.g. fewer political checks, more political shortcomings, weaker civil society and at the same time more powerful armed forces and landowning classes) - just like most if not all other Latin American countries

2) neutrality during most of WWII (until 1943-45) - just like Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Venezuela (though neutrality, I think, was somewhat less important a factor than the more general conditions)

3) exceptionally heavy exposure to British investment but being excluded from British imperial preference after the 1932 Ottawa Agreement - just like Uruguay and Chile (even though many other Latin lands, like Brazil, Peru, and Mexico, did have significant British investment too)

4) lacking a large peasantry (in the area of greatest population concentration - in this case, the Pampas) but having a large urban working-class population - just like Uruguay only

5) a high proportion of poor Italian and Spanish immigrants that took a long time to be totally integrated (including to obtain citizenship and therefore be able to vote and to have a more powerful voice in politics) - matched possibly only by Uruguay

6) bigger in population than recent relative success stories like Uruguay, Chile, and Costa Rica, and thus more difficult to manage

In other words, I think all six of these factors put together, plus disillusionment from the Great Depression and the 1930 and 1943 coups, contributed to the toxic economic nationalism that put Peron on the national stage and set the scene for the troubles that have continued down to the present day in Argentina. Argentina had all six of the above factors, Uruguay only 4-5 of these factors, and Chile only three of these factors, and so it's Argentina that's been in such a terrible mess after having been a developed country early in the 20th century, and Uruguay and Chile (also on the same general development level as Argentina) not as much. Do you think that that's fair to say?