‘The Pope Is Peruvian’: How 2 Decades In South America Shaped The Vision Of Pope Leo XIV

From Chiclayo to the Vatican After returning to the United States in 1999, Prevost rose through the leadership ranks of the Augustinian order. He was sent back to Peru in 2014, when Pope Francis named him the apostolic administrator, and later bishop, of …

Ballard Partners expands in South America, partners with Esfera Brazil in São Paulo

International lobby and public affairs giant Ballard Partners has entered into a strategic partnership with Esfera Brazil, a prominent think tank and civic organization based in São Paulo. The partnership allows Ballard Partners and Esfera to leverage …

El Paso County man sentenced for child sex crimes after being caught in South America

U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Info on Hezbollah Networks in South America

The U.S. State Department on Monday announced a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the “disruption of financial mechanisms” in South America for the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. The State Department’s Rewards for …

US judge finds South Sudan-linked deportation flight violated court order

A federal judge in the United States has told the administration of President Donald Trump that an alleged effort to deport migrants to South Sudan was “unquestionably violative” of his court injunction. The announcement from US District Judge Brian Murphy …

Trump’s Afrikaners are South African opportunists, not refugees: what’s behind the US move

South Africans are wearily attuned to governments’ Orwellian misuse of language. After all, South Africa is a country where a one-time government passed a law (the Natives Abolition of Passes and Coordination of Documents Act of 1952 which extended rather …

Trump Administration ‘Unquestionably’ Violated Court Order By Sending Migrants To South Sudan, Judge Says

Topline The Trump administration violated a federal court order by deporting migrants to South Sudan without giving them a “meaningful” opportunity to protest being sent there, Judge Brian Murphy ruled Wednesday, the latest instance of the Trump …

Trump ambushes South African president with video and false claims of anti-white racism

Donald Trump ambushed the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, by playing him a video that he falsely claimed proved genocide was being committed against white people under “the opposite of apartheid”. The hectoring stunt on Wednesday set up the most …

Trump confronts South African president over unfounded genocide claims

US President Donald Trump meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets Donald Trump on Wednesday amid tensions over Washington…

U.S. says it tried to deport criminals on flight lawyers say was to South Sudan

The Trump administration on Wednesday said it placed eight migrant detainees with serious criminal records on a deportation flight that lawyers alleged was destined for the violence-plagued African country of South Sudan, in its latest attempt to deport …