Agriculture - fertile soil and warm, wet climate allow coffee, bananas, and sugarcane. Grasslands are used to raise livestock in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil. Industrial Growth - service industries and manufacturing have grown rapidly. Venezuela, Mexico, and Brazil are the leaders. Latin America produces iron, cars, textiles, cement, chemicals, and electrical goods.
Some countries lack the money, skilled labor, and transportation to build industries.
It has been growing rapidly. The people include Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Europeans enslaved and destroyed their civilizations. Africans were brought in as slaves. Spain and Portugal ruled most areas.