Make Latin America as poor as Africa

What would be a good POD that would make Latin America just as problem-filled as Africa by 2011? Do we need to go back to pre-1900 to make this happen?
 
Even pre-1900 would be difficult. They were screwed over on a near constant basis, so making it worse than OTL would require a lot of thinking. The Yucatan for example might be worse off if the Maya did not launch their uprising in 1848 that ended up destroying the serf system there, but a PoD that averts that would require more gentle criollos and that would actually make things better by now.
 
Easy. Have the USA continue to meddle around Latin American affairs as they've been doing to the countries of the Middle East. Latin America is pretty bad compared to Europe and North America (and I do mean Canada and the USA) but the standard of living has been improving incredibly in the past few decades.
 
Have continued Spanish colonization. Possibly so far as into the late 1800's. Also have a larger Indian identity survive. But it would have to be pre-1900.
 
Peru has the second strongest retained Indian identity in the Americas(after Bolivia), and they're do above average by Latin American standards.

Not what I meant. One of the reasons Africa is so "poor" is because of Tribal divides. Having string tribal anions unwilling to deal with one another and feuding across borders could lead to a South America similar to Sub-Saharan Africans.
 
This is difficult to say the least - Latin America had an interracial class system, the desolation of the native population by alien disease and three hundred years of colonial rule. Africa for the most part had a distant ruling class of white administrators and less than a century of European domination.

The main problem is liberated Latin America had an established structure that allowed the new states to become western style nations off the bat. Africa effectively had its governing class walk off in the 1950s and 60s with few experienced natives to replace them and artifical borders.

It would be alot easier to make Africa more like Latin America than vice versa. I know this isn't helpful to the OP, I think the only chance is to have shorter colonial period, more racially distinct system and somehow avoid the (mostly) accidental biological warfare that crippled the native population. Such a situation may reduce European settlement and end with the Indian population being left with little organisational strength, artificial borders and continued Western intereference on a more subversive level.
 
Not what I meant. One of the reasons Africa is so "poor" is because of Tribal divides. Having string tribal anions unwilling to deal with one another and feuding across borders could lead to a South America similar to Sub-Saharan Africans.

The only two places that I think of where this sort of inter-tribal conflict is remotely plausible is either Mexico or Bolivia where there are different Amerindian peoples living together under one nation, especially Bolivia if there's conflict between the Aymaras and Quechuas. I can see the politically and economically dominant white European and mestizo elite creating conflict between the two groups.
 
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