Spinoff: Which is the "whitest" Hispanic country after Argentina and Uruguay?

[Erronkari]

From my understanding, Argentina in colonial times was largely ignored and underpopulated (whether by Europeans or Amerindians), hence why post-colonial governments were so keen to encourage European immigration in order to fill the country up. (Even today, Argentina ranks as one of the most sparsely-populated countries on Earth).

Exactly Tooting.
45 millions in 2.700.000 km2 is NOTHING.
An extremely unpopulated country.
For that reason I can't find the reason why it's a failure country in all senses....

[Tooting Carmen]

Exactly Tooting.
45 millions in 2.700.000 km2 is NOTHING.
An extremely unpopulated country.
For that reason I can't find the reason why it's a failure country in all senses....

The one big question is: what happened to Argentina's Black population, and how big was it in the first place? Because it is said that Tango was at least partly of Black origins.

[Tooting Carmen]

For that reason I can't find the reason why it's a failure country in all senses....

Is it really so disastrous though? Its literacy rate and life expectancy are not much different to most 'developed' countries, crime is still low by the standards of the Americas, the country still attracts immigrants from Europe, East Asia and elsewhere in South America...

[Erronkari]

People in Central Argentina live East of the Andes facing the Atlantic while in Chile they live West of the Andes facing the Pacific

You are right in that sense.
But when Argentina became a country the population was very sparse and only important in the cities.
Even in the center-east.
Virreinato del Río de la Plata was the less important.
The Capitanía General de Chile was a subsidiary territory of the Vice-Royalty with a big military presence because the area was constantly attacked by the mapuches.

[Erronkari]

The one big question is: what happened to Argentina's Black population, and how big was it in the first place? Because it is said that Tango was at least partly of Black origins.

There is said that 40% of Buenos Aires population was black in colonial times.
And in some areas more than 80%.
But unhappily most of them died because they were sended in first line of the independence war.
And many others died by yellow fever.
The "black" issue is a very sad part of the national history.
And the élite governments tried to avoid and to forgot that important part of our history.

[Erronkari]

Is it really so disastrous though? Its literacy rate and life expectancy are not much different to most 'developed' countries, crime is still low by the standards of the Americas, the country still attracts immigrants from Europe, East Asia and elsewhere in South America...

Well... ok, but if we compare it with the second stage of the peronism ('70s) is far worse now.
And incredibly worse than in the '90s...

[Tooting Carmen]

Well... ok, but if we compare it with the second stage of the peronism ('70s) is far worse now.
And incredibly worse than in the '90s...

Well wasn't it the very 'reforms' of the junta and later on Menem that made Argentina so unstable and turned it into a Ponzi scheme in the first place?

[Erronkari]

Well wasn't it the very 'reforms' of the junta and later on Menem that made Argentina so unstable and turned it into a Ponzi scheme in the first place?

Absolutely true!!

[Thetruth]

Colombia is so tricky cause it’s full of contrasts, between trying to decide either to put the fact that they have a region that is predominantly Afro(the Pacific coast) and the Triracial Caribbean coast or just sum up the national average only makes me think they should be either in the same category as Puerto Rico and Venezuela or Nicaragua and Costa Rica

[Thetruth]

I didn’t your the one that mentioned the Argentina of yesteryears in 1816, all I said was Argentina had an Atlantic coast and that made it easier for Europeans to reach its coasts