• Northern economies required resources abundant in Latin America
  • In return, promised desired manufactured technologies
• Most Latin American nations prospered through cheaply producing commodities
• Developed economies allowed investments in required technologies
  • Railroad development allowing for generally higher functioning
• Most elites believed societies would never prosper if order was not established
  • Motto of “Order and Progress”, shown on Brazilian flag
  • Instability was caused by stability in smaller united communities
• Modern states in Latin America lacked democracy of other modern states
  • Some historians attribute it to authoritarian colonial past
  • Other historians attribute the cultural favoring of dictatorships
• With modern technologies, nations became increasingly ordered after 1850s
  • In part, perceived order was through careful public relations
  • Additionally exhibited general return to stability
• Latin American nations were still restricted to export economy
  • Had not been able to change from colonial labor force
  • Some export-based economies were able to be prosperous