Argentina

Argentina

Argentina 'Slum Priests' Take Pope's Message To The Poor

The legacy of Pope Francis, who famously exhorted young Catholics to "shake things up" by taking the gospel to "favelas, slums and shantytowns," lives on in the ramshackle neighborhood of 40,000 souls, a stone's throw from the well-heeled district of Retiro.

Abortion Access Under Threat In Milei's Argentina

Milei, a fervent admirer of US counterpart Donald Trump, has also cut funding for a program credited with halving the number of teen pregnancies between 2017 and 2023, especially in the poorer provinces of Argentina's northwest.

5 Ways In Which Argentina's Milei Has Mirrored Trump

On Wednesday, Argentina announced it would follow the United States out of the World Health Organization, echoing Trump's repeated complaints about what he called the body's mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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