South America

South America 08/19/20, 17:16

The lawyer for former right-wing paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso asked a federal court in the United States to force Justice Secretary William Barr to deport him immediately to Italy. Mancuso was released on March 11 on a drug trafficking conviction. According to AP News, the emergency request was filed Monday in ...

South America 08/15/20, 12:58

The United States managed to intercept and divert four tankers thus thwarting another attempt by Venezuela's dictator, Nicolás Maduro, to import oil from Iran in violation of the sanctions imposed on his regime. U.S. Judge Jeb Boasberg issued the order to seize more than 1.1 million barrels of petroleum transported on ...

South America 08/05/20, 17:38

On Tuesday, Colombia's Supreme Court ordered former President Alvaro Uribe to be placed under house arrest while he is under investigation for bribing and manipulating witnesses who were to testify against him. The home confinement of former President Uribe was unanimously defined. The current Senator will serve his term of imprisonment ...

South America 07/24/20, 11:35

On July 17, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) sent an amendment to the Congressional Rules Committee asking that no part of the funds that the United States sends to Colombia be used for fumigation of illegal crops, according to the Leaders League. AOC wrote, " None  of  the  amounts  authorized  to  be  appropriated  ...

South America 07/06/20, 11:30

In a new show of rejection of the Nicolás Maduro regime by the United States government, President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support and solidarity with the Venezuelan people. In an official statement issued by the White House on July 5, the President Trump once again expressed his strong rejection of socialism. ...

South America 05/21/20, 12:52

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of supporting the Iranian regime in its sale of arms to Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, paid for with the gold smuggled from Venezuela. To further tighten sanctions against the Iranian and Venezuelan regimes, the U.S. State Department on May ...

South America 03/19/20, 05:37

The Communist Party (CCP )is infuriated with a Nobel Prize winner after his remarks blaming the CCP for the spread of the CCP Virus (coronavirus ) throughout the world. Mario Vargas Llosa, from Peru, is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and said if China was not a dictatorship, ...

Inspired Stories 01/30/20, 05:27

The relationship between that father and his unborn baby had a heartwarming impact. Flávio Dantas, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was thrilled to be a father. He would speak to his unborn baby each day until his daughter was born, with no idea how much his efforts would reward him. On ...

South America 12/11/19, 06:06

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro called Swedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg a “brat” on Tuesday, Dec. 10, after her comment on two Indigenous people Brazilians' death in the Amazon. The fight ignited on Monday after Thunberg tweeted a link to a story about two indigenous men of the Guajajara tribe in ...

South America 12/09/19, 22:29

Chile's air force lost radio contact with a transport plane carrying 38 people on a flight Monday evening to the country's base in Antarctica, and authorities indicated several hours later that they were not optimistic about the aircraft's fate. The military said earlier that it had declared an alert and activated ...

South America 12/09/19, 07:06

Out of 90 contestants, Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi took the crown for Miss Universe 2019, and Madison Anderson, Miss Puerto Rico, coming in as first runner-up. The new #MissUniverse2019 is... SOUTH AFRICA!!!! 🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/gRW8vcuT3A — Miss Universe (@MissUniverse) 9 tháng 12, 2019 Anderson, Miss Puerto Rico, in her response to the final ...

South America 11/16/19, 13:53

When children, who usually bring fun to the family, are born, they need the love and care of adults because they can't drink or feed themself, and they also can't say they're hungry. But as soon as children grow up, they usually tend to like to do housework as well ...

South America 11/13/19, 12:40

After the protests of Bolivian citizens intensified following the controversial electoral elections of Oct. 20, which led President Evo Morales to resign as head of state, various senators of the Democratic wing such as Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), have described the democratic resolution as ...

South America 11/12/19, 17:44

President Donald Trump praised the Bolivian people for forcing the resignation of socialist leader Evo Morales. In a statement published by the White House, the president stressed that the fall of Morales, after almost 14 years in power, represents "a significant moment for democracy in the Western Hemisphere." Morales resigned after three ...

South America 11/10/19, 16:41

Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned Sunday under mounting pressure from the military and the public after his re-election victory triggered weeks of fraud allegations and deadly protests. The decision came after a day of fast-moving developments, including an offer from Morales to hold a new election. But the crisis deepened dramatically ...

South America 11/08/19, 00:13

Brazil's Supreme Court delivered a ruling that could release almost 5,000 inmates still appealing their convictions, including former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and other powerful figures jailed in a sprawling corruption investigation. The court decided in a 6-5 vote late Thursday that a person can be imprisoned only after ...