Originally Posted by cordoba

South America is becoming a very scary place. Even countries like Argentina, which are basically European societies (Argentina used to be one of the top 10 richest nations on earth), are rife with kidnappings and high murder rates now.

I think things might get very bad, very quickly, in both the USA and Europe if the economy crashes again. All the ingredients are there - multiculturalism, massive underclasses, gangs...they've just been masked by decades of relative prosperity.