South-American record claim:

Type of record: Straight distance

Course/location: Quixada - Capitão de Campos (Brazil)

Performance: 332 km

Pilot: Keiko Hiraki (Japan)

Paraglider: Enzo / Ozone

Date: 19.11.2013

Current record: 324.7 km (14.11.2009 - Kamira Pereira Rodrigues, Brazil)

There was longer world record there already:
http://ozreport.com/17.225#3

So how come a World Record set in South America isn't also the South American
record?

http://www.fai.org/civl-records/civl-how-to-set-a-record