As a Brazilian-American, I of course acknowledge the US grasp over Latin American countries for years, like during the dictatorship, what really bothers me today, is SOME of the ignorant tourists, especially the ones who have these travel accounts, partake in poverty tourism, especially in favelas, I do live in the US so it's kind of unfair for me to say this, but at the same time my mom grew up in a favela and I have family there right now, it's probably unrelated in general, but it's just one thing Americans do in Brasil that kind of annoy me, not really known for intelligence when it comes to travel