Chiquita built on the infrastructure developed by United Fruit Company, famous for turning latin american countries into massive "Company Towns", which is why central American and Caribbean countries are refered to as "Banana Republics"
As someone who professionally manages international businesses with locations the 3rd world locations such as rural China, Philippines,Russia, Ukraine , Costa Rica Panama and Brazil , I can tell you that the environment for businesses in most of Latin America is in fact considered toxic, even by Chinese or Russian based international firms...
The lengths you must go to to insure success here insure that only locals , with direct connections and a superlative knowledge of the local workforce, ever have a chance of even getting started.. And even then the success rate is in the low single digit percentage rate.
Imagine managing a workforce that has a legal right to receive up to 1 years salary if they are fired for any reason after working their first day. no probationary period.. no exceptions to the rule.. unless your willing to bribe a local official to look the other way.
Edit: This is not to say that you cant run a bitcoin mine down here.. Its just a lot more difficult than other places, such as East Asia.