Only a few days ago, I had a discussion with some contacts about the situation in South America.
It would appear that there is a lot of the "head in the sand" behaviour happening.
The only country that I know of in the region who are just about to embark on a training course for their ATCOs is Honduras.
I was asked to go out to Chile a while back but they have decided to hold off for a while until they "see what the others are doing!"
planeenglish - nice to read you - hope all is well on your side of the world!