Many countries here in South America lived through some form of socialism
...with an often overlooked caveat that the US imperial empire, through the CIA, has staged coups, assassinations, embargos, sanctions, color revolutions, political meddling, contra scandals, and outright genocide during that time. The expressed purpose of all of that was to cause as much human suffering as possible, in order to get people to hate their government.
So, for us Peruvians, we live what I am warning through the decade of the 80s.
Peru has never been a Socialist state, although I will give it to you that there was a significant socialist movement during that time.
The presidents of that time, first Fernando Belaúnde Terry (who focused on housing, but not on security which lead to the formation of Sendero Luminoso) and the Alan Garcia ( whose strategy was similar to what AOC is doing right now, while enacting most socialist programs like price control, and healthcare (in reality, an oversaturation of the dangerously lackluster service (further context: it was common to die from diarrhea here))), had a socialist government which worsened the situation until the next government of Alberto Fujimori.
So, just to be clear, ... there was never a Socialist society during that time, correct? You only had a leftish government, surrounding by US meddling, literal genocide, and death squads of Communists and supporters. Socialism doesn't mean anti-market and doesn't mean "government does stuff".
"I agree with Communism, except literally every country to try and do communism." I love these sorts of takes lol