I was confused by your wording, but I think you mean South of the USA rather than South America.
It may be a USA Brazilian thing, the diaspora is quite large.
I don’t mean to derail the conversation, but it pains me to say that Europeans have been financing the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh by buying Azerbaijani oil with almost no repercussion.
North America was built by the train, it was later destroyed for the car.
I have a Kobo Libra 2, I quite enjoy it for borrowing books from the public library.
Most republics afaik have “Republic” in their name. I don’t think that’s the problem.
At some point I stopped trying to make sense of it and let the general feelings carry me forward. It’s bizarre and dark, but in a captivating way.