A colonial powers in the Americas were real douchebags. They genocided the natives, then went to another continent to enslave people and bring them over. All this was for sugar and tobacco. Millions of deaths and enslaved so some people in Europe could smoke cigarettes while they have sweets. It couldn’t get much worse than that.
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vga@sopuli.xyz 5 days agoFor a colonial power, Spain was a real douchebag.
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leftytighty@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
It’s not about the sweets and cigarettes it’s just about the wealth acquisition. Same then as it is now. Companies are still using slave and otherwise coerced labor to extract all kinds of wealth from foreign countries.
If any countries try to take control over their own economy by closing it to Western “investment” they get wrecked by the world bank and invaded or sanctioned by the US and/or its allies.
Global capitalism is neo-colonialism.
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
There are plenty of other former Spanish colonies that are doing much better than Venezuela
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
But are any doing well?
gaspar_petersen@programming.dev 4 days ago
Uruguay and Chile are kinda okay
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Wasn’t Chile in the brink of a civil war recently? I’ve no clue about Uruguay though.