This is patently insane. Yes, keep blaming outside agents for the flood of corruption that holds the region hostage. Is the US to blame? Of course, but in a limited sense, and not without your own leaders selling you out. And the socialist experiment has been run in parallel with Venezuela, a country that certainly isn’t a shining utopia, and orthogonally in Scandinavia, where you have social democracy yet vanishingly low levels of corruption compared to South America.