South America

Central America 10/02/21, 04:14

U.S. appeals court on Thursday, Sept. 30 allowed the Biden administration to keep expelling illegal migrants due to COVID-19 risks. The border policy, known as Title 42, materialized under the Trump administration when the COVID-19 pandemic started to reveal its devastating power in March 2020.  Under the policy, officials can directly return ...

South America 09/29/21, 18:09

At least 30 people are confirmed dead and possibly as many as 100 and some 52 injured after heavy clashes broke out during the last hours of Tuesday, Sept. 28, in an Ecuador prison. Violence broke out in a prison southwest of Guayaquil in a confrontation involving firearms, knives, and ...

Central America 09/27/21, 06:17

As the Biden administration is expelling Haitian illegal immigrants back to their chaotic country, thousands of others are making their way to the U.S. border through treacherous jungles. Newsmax citing Panamanian government sources, reported that up to 4,000 migrants, most of them Haitians, have passed through the jungles of the Darien ...

Central America 09/24/21, 19:45

President Biden's Special Envoy for Haiti, Ambassador Daniel Foote, resigned Thursday, Sept. 23 amid a rise in Haitian migrants crossing the southern border, blasting the Biden administration's decision as "inhumane" and "counterproductive."In his resignation letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, first reported by PBS, Foote said he was retiring ...

Central America 09/22/21, 03:58

The grassy city land beneath the Del Rio-Acuna International Bridge has turned into a massive campsite for migrants crossing the Rio Grande River while waiting to be apprehended by the Border Patrol.The number of migrants, many of whom are Haitians, has increased dramatically from around 400 a week ago. The ...

Central America 09/15/21, 02:48

The Biden administration announced Monday, Sept. 13, that the Obama-era immigration program that allows Central American children to reunite with their parents in the U.S. had resumed taking applications. The Central American Minors (CAM) program grants refugee status to children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who have parents or guardians ...

Central America 09/11/21, 16:07

Despite President Biden’s new vaccine mandates for approximately two-thirds of U.S. workers, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki clarified on Friday, Sept. 10, that the government does not require COVID-19 shots for people who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. “That’s correct,” Psaki told Fox News reporter Peter Doocy. Psaki dismissed a question ...

South America 09/07/21, 02:56

Brazil's health regulator temporarily blocked more than 12 million doses of Sinovac Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine on Sept. 4. Anvisa took regulatory action after receiving a complaint from Sao Paulo's Butantan Institute biomedical center. The center, which helps the Chinese firm manufacture locally, accused the Asian pharmaceutical company of unlawfully producing several ...

South America 08/15/21, 17:56

Drugmakers Pfizer Inc, BioNTech, and Moderna Inc stand to make billions of dollars from COVID-19 booster doses. Analysts and healthcare investors predict this lucrative market could soon rival the $6 billion flu vaccine market for years to come. Faced with the rapidly spreading Delta variant, Chile, Germany, Israel and other governments ...

South America 08/13/21, 00:18

A teenage crypto trader who boasted about his fortune on Instagram was fatally shot while driving his red Porsche Boxster. As he drove through the Brazilian city of Sao Pedro da Aldeia, gunmen opened fire on 19-year-old Wesley Pessano Santarem. Santarem is seen unmoving in the driver's seat of his car, his ...

South America 08/10/21, 17:33

A Republican from Arkansas wants fellow conservatives to help stop an amnesty provision that Democrats concealed in a $3.5 trillion budget bill. Sen. Tom Cotton alerted colleagues about the Democratic Party's hidden agenda to spend $107 billion of taxpayer money on regulating a blanket amnesty for illegal aliens. The revelation came ...

Central America 08/07/21, 19:45

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted a total of 834 unaccompanied minors at the US-Mexico border on Wednesday, Aug. 4, the highest number since the Biden administration began publishing a daily tally of child apprehensions earlier this year. The 834 children crossed the border on a single day during the ...

Central America 08/06/21, 03:55

Flights to return illegal Central American migrant families had finally started, a source said. The flights were initiated under Title 42, a Trump-era border policy that would expel undocumented migrants to restrict COVID-19 risks. The procedure was extended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this Monday, Aug. 2.  On ...

Central America 08/04/21, 16:37

The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, on Aug. 3, published a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) order giving Venezuelans in the United States an 18-month extension allowing them to remain in the country legally. This time frame allows and encourages millions of Venezuelans currently in South America to come ...

South America 07/28/21, 05:45

On Tuesday, July 27, a man is lucky to be alive after a shark aggressively chomped his butt at Piedade Beach in Jaboato dos Guararapes, Brazil—the same beach where a man lost his life after a shark attack on July 10.The victim, Everton dos Reis Guimaraes was taken to a ...

South America 07/24/21, 01:22

Two 18-year-old twin sisters were executed in Ceará, Brazil, last Wednesday—shot in the back of their heads. Their final moments were live-streamed on Instagram by the killers. The remains of the two victims, identified as Amália Alves and Amanda Alves, were discovered on the side of a road behind a housing ...