BTW, there is a strange notion that South Americans love hot spicey sauces. Not true. Mexicans and Central Americans down to about Guatemala love spicey foods but south of that...absolutely not. My wife is from Venezuela and none of her relatives and it turn out, almost nobody, in the surrounding countries like hot food at all. One time my wife actually took a bite of slightly spicey fried chicken and was instantly revolted. Also she can’t understand when I say I live to feel the heat in my ears and chest.
I’ve worked and traveled in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Ecuador — what you say is true about South American cuisine. My favorite in Chile was Locos Mayo — Cocina Típica Chilena.