Crab bucket Catholics gonna do what they can to keep colonialism alive. Exploit natural resources at all costs to prove that you aren't like those savage pagan natives; you are a refined man because you cut your hair and wear a suit and do the bidding of the West. Civilized, even if that means you shoot to death a twenty something woman who is five months pregnant. After all, somebody has to drive that truck of gold to the port in Guayaquil.
8 of the 10 deadliest countries are in Latin America. The other two are the Philippines (Catholic) and Indonesia (the outlier here).