Pope Leo's brazen snub of America revealed by world leaders

Latin American leaders were quick to claim newly elected Pope Leo XIV as one of their own, despite the pontiff's US roots and after the native previously 's stance on migrants.

When it was revealed on Thursday that Robert Francis Prevost had been elected pope, he addressed the world in Latin, Italian and Spanish - speaking directly to his flock in Chiclayo, Peru, where he also holds citizenship. He did not speak in English.

'He chose to be one of us,' Peru President Dina Boluarte said in a public address lauding the selection, 'to live among us, and to carry in his heart the faith, culture, and dreams of this nation.'

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