>>508400555South America has worse problems than the US.
Every single time they get a more conservative leader that improves the economy the leftists in the country rally everyone to tell them how bad things are because they are working so hard instead of being given free shit and then they elect another leftist/communist government then runs the country back into the ground.
Both Argentina and Chile should have a quality of life on par or greater than that of the Western Europe/US (The good parts) because of their natural resources and who they trade with, but once things start to improve they double down with the "Free gibz!" leader and go set back 10+ years.