Argentina's economic history is ridden with political catastrophes. Even the period of liberalism in the 1880-1920's had plenty of issues: indentured servants,

Argentina's economic history is ridden with political catastrophes. Even the period of liberalism in the 1880-1920's had plenty of issues: indentured servants, borderline slavery. Workers protests were met with violence and murder by officials. Argentina has had a military coup every couple of decades in the previous century, which included entire presidencies with unelected officials, culminating in a coup that killed between 9000 and 30000 thousand people. The lack of political stability can explain the problems in all other areas, like ineffective justice or economic stability. Not to mention that using a 100 year span, and including germany as an example to follow..