One other thing I would like to point out.
A long time ago I tried to do an analysis of just how many PC would have been in the World in 1997. I believe the number I came up with was over 600 million. This has always been my argument that even if only 1% survived globally there would be 6 million functional PCs out there.
As far as South America goes I believe my assessment was that before any possible EMP damage there would be 35 million plus PC in South America. These PC would have been even more likely to survive that the rest of the world as a majority of the EMP would miss them due to the curvature of the earth. When you add the effects of mountains blocking EMP waves and the fact that they were not really targeted until the third round of attacks (China/Europe, US/USSR, then Neutral nations) there would have been much more time to work on shielding methods, I think the number would be much higher than 1%.
This has always made me think that Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, etc would have a leg up in post war recovery.
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