All posts tagged "Southamerica"

MIAMI -- Pamela Rauseo is stuck in gridlock on the Dolphin Expressway, a crying baby in the backseat. She’s on the phone with her husband and also listening to the radio about the crisis in Venezuela. The baby’s wails are deafening. And then, suddenly, silence from the backseat. Rauseo pulls the car partially onto the shoulder and jumps into the backseat. Her 5-month old nephew Sebastian is still, his face blue. She tries calling 911, but her fingers won’t move. So Rauseo rushes into the bumper-to-bumper traffic, cradling her nephew, shouting for help. — “I felt like I got hit in the gut with ......

NEW YORK — Two days after a Bronx man got into an altercation with the Guardian Angels in Times Square, the group’s leader, Curtis Sliwa, took his lumps Thursday from a broad swath of elected officials and everyday New Yorkers. Sliwa, who erroneously identified the Bronxite as a Venezuelan migrant during a live interview Tuesday night on national TV, gave a defiant mea culpa Thursday afternoon to the Daily News, saying he could have been “milder and calmer.” But that didn’t stop the political class from reining down rhetorical blows on the conservative radio personality. “Washed-up comic book ......

NEW YORK — Members of the Guardian Angels were seen on cable news roughing up a man their leader described as a shoplifting “migrant” — though the allegation appears to be false. The Tuesday night confrontation played out while Fox News’ Sean Hannity was interviewing the Angels’ boss Curtis Sliwa, who directed a live camera to pan to the scuffle. “Our guys have just taken down one of the migrant guys right here on the corner — 42nd [St.] and Seventh [Ave.],” Sliwa said. “They’ve taken over.” A group of red beret-wearing Guardian Angels were then seen surrounding the man and taking him to the p......

Passports open the doors of the world. But not all of them are equal. Depending on the country that issues them and various other factors, some are much more powerful than others. And the advantages of being the holder of a powerful passport are countless. To begin with, they allow the holder to easily enter most countries without additional entry requirements such as visas. So, which is the world’s most powerful passport for travel in 2024? According to a well-known index published earlier this month, the Spanish passport is the best that a traveler can have today to travel next year. Travele......

Enjoying samba and caipirinhas in their country of origin will no longer be so easy for U.S travelers. Starting on Jan. 10, 2024, travelers with U.S. passports wishing to vacation in Brazil must first obtain a mandatory entry visa. The Electronic Visa (eVisa) of the Federative Republic of Brazil is a new entry requirement for American, Canadian and Australian travelers, Brazilian authorities announced. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs alerted on its social media channels that the Brazilian government “will reinstate a visa requirement for all U.S. nationals visiting Br......

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed eight indictments in San Diego and elsewhere detailing a massive narcotics trafficking operation by the new bosses of the Beltrán Leyva organization, once one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels. The announcement Wednesday came the same day the U.S. Coast Guard unloaded more than 18,000 pounds of seized cocaine at the 10th Avenue Marine Terminal in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. Officials said the two events were unrelated, as the cocaine offloaded by the Coast Guard was seized over the past two months, while the alleged c......