Latin American hangs out with Westerner is the usual path.

Remember when the CIA funded schools to teach Right Wing Death Squads and they put in a bunch of rightwing dictators in because they’re scared of communism having a turn?

History is hilarious. The School of the Americas. Life, Liberty, and teaching massacres 101:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation#Criticism

“The U.S. Army School of the Americas is a school that has run more dictators than any other school in the history of the world.”

- Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II[83]