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Well, yes and no.... Not to disagree with you 100%, but I do have to somewhat... Yes, clubs you've played at, like Pacha Buenos Aires for example, or the Crobar down there as well, are a whole other story probably... But where my family is from, not to mention what I hear from my friends in Brazil, Colombia, etc., it's not the EDM scene in the clubs that's the problem.. It's these big parties... A huge problem down there is that drug lords (and what not) organize these huge events, with huge DJs, lasers, etc.... It's very different from the organization a Pacha or Crobar or some superclub down there has, but it's very much a huge part of their EDM scene. Like, in Ecuador at least (once again), and also according to my friends in Puerto Rico and those areas, you won't see a Kleinenberg or Carl Cox or Steve Lawler playing at a random club on a Friday night... When they do come, it's in an arena, and there's 10-20,000 people there, and there's trouble just waiting to happen with crowds that big... Of course, every country's socio-political situation is different, but from what I hear and see, the average EDM lover isn't going to the big superclubs, which are seen as elitist, and where, yes, a lot of beautiful people and other EDM fans go... The scene has a totally different meaning down there, which is why you may have noticed that the emergence of minimal came about almost simultaneously from South America as it did in Germany (a lot of huge DJs and so many productions coming out of that continent)... These underground, drug-sponsored events, as bad and stereotypical as that sounds, are what helped bring up a big techno scene, but also now and then hurt it.... One time, when I was in Ecuador, and wanted to go see Mauro Picotto play a Meganite party there, my cousins explained this all to me... They thought I was crazy, because a) it was dangerous enough to go out after 8pm, but b) it was a huge warehouse party thrown by the local promo-group notorious for these huge drug fests... Sure enough, I didn't go, but saw pictures later, and wouldn't you guess, it was literally an airplane-hangar-size warehouse with what looked like 10,000 people going nuts... Same thing I hear happens in Brazil... You have warehouses and beaches and mountaintops full of thousands of poorer and middle class kids going crazy to techno tripping out of their skull, but also big superclubs with a totally differnt clientele but into the same music, only kilometers away... Just my two cents, I could be wrong about the whole of South America, but this is just based on what I know from my own experience and family in those areas mentioned 
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