Sort of successful.
None ever became a settler colony. Colombia, Venezuela or Peru cheat :) by having high mountains.
The settled parts of Mexico or Brazil are outside the tropics and/or elevated.
LOL!
It is not that you pay two poops and three farts for something.
Here farth=fourth, i.e. one fourth of a Penny.
Think "cvertnik" or something like that in a Slavic language.
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