A woman touches a religious figure beside a banner of Pope Francis reading in Spanish, “The Pope of the people of the slum” as she attends a Mass in his honor at the 1-11-14 slum’s church in Buenos ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Children living in a slum in Argentina’s capital are playing cricket as part of an initiative to help them escape poverty and crime. Villa 21-24 in Buenos Aires is a ...

Argentine President Javier Milei leaves the Holocaust museum after attending an event marking the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 26, 2024 ...

Argentina's "slum priests," who have been taking the church's teachings to the poor since the 1960s, were energized by Francis's exhortation to Catholic youth in 2013 ...

All links without [es] are in English. Argentina's shantytowns—the villas miserias—are in an identity crisis. Shantytown identity is a culture all its own, but it doesn't enjoy the visibility many ...

On rainy days, wastewater floods into homes. Yet on those very same days, residents often can't draw water from their taps. Margarita Garcia has two problems: Too much water — and not enough water.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina says more than 2,000 police and other security agents have staged a massive raid into one of the most dangerous slums of Buenos Aires. Security Minister ...

In Argentina, security forces have sealed off one of the poorest neighborhoods in the outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires, preventing people from entering or leaving, after more than half of the ...

In one of the poorest slums in Argentina, hundreds of families rely on a huge landfill site to feed their children. Argentina used to be among the most prosperous countries in Latin America. But now ...

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