My country, Uruguay (look at South America below Brazil) took a very shortsighted approach to fiber links, and as a result we depend on a single cable running from Argentina.
It was cut down by a work crew once, thus leaving the entire country without Internet (well, with a so-slow-it-was-unusable Internet).
It was cut down by a work crew once, thus leaving the entire country without Internet (well, with a so-slow-it-was-unusable Internet).