In Buenos Aires, 'Neighborhoods of Misery' Slums Growing Despite Efforts to Transform Them. By Monte Reel. April 28, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. BUENOS AIRES -- About 1,500 people used to live in Villa ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People attend Mass at the Virgen de Caacupe chapel, following the death of Pope Francis, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 21, 2025.

In Buenos Aires' Poor Neighborhoods, Residents Recall Beers and Chats With Pope Francis. ... then a young Jorge Mario Bergoglio used to visit regularly, at the Villa 21-24, in Buenos Aires, ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina ... Chatwin was correct in viewing this sprawling, fascinating port city of 48 barrios (neighborhoods), oft referred to as a European city in South America, ...

In the poor Zavaleta district of Buenos Aires, ... Buenos Aires' poor neighborhoods mourn 'slum pope' Francis. By Miguel Lo Bianco. April 24, 2025 3:36 PM UTC Updated ago ...

BUENOS AIRES - In the impoverished Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa 21-24, 68-year-old painter Heriberto Ayala still remembers how Pope Francis, then Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an archbishop, came ...