There is nothing wrong with wanting to adopting children that need a home. The problem is that when a person wants to adopt cross culture, there are inevitable conflicts that make it more difficult. There have also been some really bad people in Guatemala and Samoa that have ruined it for reputable people. Belize is also starting to come to grips in a real way with sexual exploitation of children and for now that makes it more difficult.
A sincere paranoia has entered the thinking as professional people struggle to change the loop holes in the law that have allowed residents and visitors alike to escape going to jail for an extended period of time for engaging in the exploitative practices.
If you really are interested and want to adopt a child, stick with it and do not give up. It may, sorry will ,mean walking through a frustrating but child oriented set of movable regulations