“Belize is the only country in Central America with English as a primary language due to coral reefs and pirates. Belize has a giant barrier reef along its coastline. During the days when the Spanish ruled that part of the world, English speaking smugglers, privateers, and merchants would raid Spanish settlements and then navigate their smaller ships through the reef- the larger Spanish ships couldn’t make it through. It wasn’t worth it to the Spanish to figure out how to stop them, so they basically said, “y’all can have that land if you stop f@#king with us.” Belize became an English colony and has remained English speaking through independence.”