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National statistical systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) struggle to implement international data governance initiatives despite demonstrable technical capacity. This research examines this quandary in a Brazilian context. Using Brazil's Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) as a case study, selected for its statistical infrastructure and "embedded autonomy" within Brazil's institutional landscape, this project employs Socio-Technical Interaction Networks (STIN) analysis and draws fromt echnical work conducted in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's Statistics Division on standardizing national data in the region. Thus, it reveals implementation gaps and triumphs arising from the interaction of international data governance and national sociotechnical realities. This mapping exercise represents the first step toward developing a contextually-responsive implementation framework for data governance across LAC that meets countries where they are, not where international initiatives assume they should be.