Antigua may have been
voted the world's top travel destination, Tikal
the world's greatest historical experience ahead of the Taj Mahal and the pyramids, the whole Central American isthmus may be a
global specialist in the generation of happiness, but this week
Newsweek published
an interactive infographic which saw Guatemala come in a lowly 84th out of a 100 of the world's best countries — and if you sort by 'Latin America & Caribbean' the
Chapines end up with the wooden spoon. Yes, we are officially the shittest place to live in the whole region.
Even though Haiti was apparently not competing, how this state of affairs could have arisen is a complete mystery to me frankly. Have the people responsible for these metrics (Health, Education, Political Environment, Economic Dynamism and Quality of Life) ever
been to Honduras? They even have a higher per capita murder rate over there, as well as a lower per capita GDP and 80s-style throwback political shenanigans.
PS: Cuba came in above Colombia, a statistic that is bound to please those nice folk over on NT24.
1 comment:
It's gotta be in the weighting, with some theoretical construct being given undue weight resulting in non-real-world numbers...
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