America's track record in South-America is pretty poor. For a long time it was a proxy battle ground for the Cold War. And Trump just cut most of the relief fu

America's track record in South-America is pretty poor. For a long time it was a proxy battle ground for the Cold War. And Trump just cut most of the relief funding, so a lot of social welfare programs are being cut short. Making countries rich is part of geopolitical strategy (for instance, West-Germany vs. East-Germany). For every country that the US "made rich" is a country where life expectancy went way down due to US involvement.