Can anyone name one (1) former Spanish colony that isn't poverty stricken, and 1 British one that is? (Exclude Africa)

[Manolón]

Looking

Yes, there's a discrepancy of 200 years.
Castille sided with English Catholics when Henry VIII kicked Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.
So Castille was part of a Civil War, English Catholics lost.
Before, Castille and England were allies and the Monarchs were closely related.
Queen Isabella of Spain was a Lancaster and a Plantagenet and she spoke English.
Catholic nobility in England remains being pro-Spanish after 500 years.
There's also the Black Legend.

[PittNewbie]

Originally Posted by LookinForMayberry

I think you might be a victim of the English-Spanish prejudicial history. Much of what England colonized was done so after the Spanish were already there. It's just that the Spanish zenith came and went so far in advance of England's, just as England's came in advance of ours. Wealth centers seem to globe-trot.

And the US's zenith came and went so far in advance of China's. Weath centers seem to globe-trot.

Keep invading countires on borrowed debt while not taking care of your own.

[Manolón]

Pitt

Just like Spain.
Spain invaded the entire world on borrowed debt and the country was in shambles.

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by Manolón

Pitt

Just like Spain.
Spain invaded the entire world on borrowed debt and the country was in shambles.

Spain did not invade the entire world.

I do not think that they would have been able to pay for anything if all that they had borrowed was "debt."

"How much is that?"
"It cost ten gold coins."
"Will you accept this note which says that the bearer owes Rodrigo ten gold coins?"

[Manolón]

The entire Known World, by then English did it behind bushes.
As to debts, check Fugger Bankers or Fucheros, the bankers of the Augsburg dinasty.
Charles the First of Spain and Fifth of Germany was living thanks to the advanced credit of the fourth and fifth silver shipment from America.
Not only that, the Augsburg were so broke that the gave Venezuela to the Fugger Bankers, but they tried to exterminate Indians and were expelled and the Spanish had to return.