The main Mexican version of spanish is actually an amalgamation of old world spanish and the derivitive of the Aztec and Mayan languages.
Also, English became more widespread in North America because It was mostly controlled by the English. They either bought it outright frmo other rival nations or fought for it.
Spain headed south and took over much of South America. Remember that Christoph Columbus, though he was Italian, actually sailed under the flag of Spain and he landed more in the Southern areas then in the Northern to Spain already had a very large pressence in South America.
France pretty much got kicked of the continent entirely except for Quebec.
Return to the free market. Get rid of all government regulations and let society make it's own decisions. Time and again the relaxing of government regulations has increased profits, innovation and the economy.