How is european colonialism/ imperialism more harmful to Latin American than Africa?

Modern imperialism in the form of international
corporate/banking control is equally damaging everywhere.  In historic terms, it would
be hard to make a case for this question's assumption; Africa is without doubt the most
wrecked part of the world today, and that is in large part due to colonialism.  The
boundaries of African countries were drawn up by European powers with no regard to
ethnic, cultural, religious or linguistic reference.  The very end of colonialism in
Africa was done in such haste after WW II that almost no African country had any real
ability to run itself or its political, economic, military or social issues.  This was
not because of some mythical inability of Africans, but because the European rulers had
never really integrated Africans in the processes of governing or in the running of the
economic life of the nations.  The Congo is the most glaring example, in some respects,
but no more really than Angola or many
others.

Colonialism's main negative impact on
South America is that the countries of the continent were mostly under Spain during
colonialism, and therefore have several major problems inherent from
that. One, they have Spanish-based law, meaning the accused must prove
their innocence in criminal cases, infinitely more difficult than defending themselves
while the State must prove their guilt.  Two, the legacy of military control and rule by
an elite minority, usually of lighter-skinned, more ethnically Spanish people.  That
goes along with the third, the extreme inequality of wealth, with a small minority of
rich and powerful families ruling in a business-consortium manner, with a large mass of
poor peasants and a small middle class.  The fourth is more subtle, the tendency of
Spanish-based cultures to attempt to redress grievances by revolutionary activities. 
This is in part due to the elitist nature of Latin American society and government and
resistance to the needs of the people, but in part is a legacy of the Napoleonic Wars. 
Spain's military was unable to resist Napoleon's forces, but with British help they
waged a very successful guerrilla war.  The problem is that this left Spain (and Latin
America) with a tradition of guerrilla warfare when dealing with any major governmental
problem which frustrated a major portion of the
population.

There is no doubt that colonialism left S.
America with a legacy of serious problems, and that modern "globalization" is wrecking
the economies of the continent.  But in neither case are those effects really worse on
that continent than in Asia, certainly not worse than in Africa.