Don't worry, you can trust decrypt (at least inasmuch as you can trust Yahoo):
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-government-enlists-usdc-gl...
Regardless of a given view on the politics of this particular intervention, accepting the intervention occurs at all, also accepts crypto's utility for this purpose of circumventing systemic centralised corruption, which was the point of the example.
Also, the US government sending cryptocurrency to South America honestly doesn't sound like a definite positive. Even recently, the US doesn't have a great track record with their interventions in that region of the world.