BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - In the poor Zavaleta district of Buenos Aires, amidst precarious houses and narrow alleys, Marina Ayala walks the same streets Pope Francis walked during his years as a priest ...

In the Villa Zavaleta neighbourhood, at least nine drug gangs operate, fighting violently for territory with bunkers and ...

Eugenios Close Up Inside the Slums of Buenos Aires A professional photographer seeks to infuse his Buenos Aires slum with art creativity and free expression As with so many of the marginalised shanty ...

SÃO PAULO – Appointed as the new Archbishop of Buenos Aires by Pope Francis on May 26, Jorge García Cuerva has a vast experience with the poor in Argentina. For years, García Cuerva worked with ...

STORY: In Argentina's poor barrios, a food emergency is taking hold. In its grip, people like Cynthia. The 32-year-old is suffering from malnutrition, aggravated by the fact that she is missing a ...

“Shantytown” by Cesar Aira (New Directions, 128 pgs., $13.95) The Argentine writer Cesar Aira is a master of dark and forgotten places. Like his late countryman Jorge Luis Borges, he writes narratives ...

In Brazil, 12 million families -- up to 60 million people -- live in slums, known as "favelas" in Portuguese, and 55 million people do not have access to a sewage system. Until now, the Catholic ...

World soccer great Diego Armando Maradona, who died on Wednesday less than a month after his 60th birthday, was worshipped like a god for his genius with the ball, but his demons almost destroyed him.

The Peruvian Home Office reported on Tuesday the capture of a Peruvian and an Argentine wanted for the murder of three young ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is expanding the reach of its cricket club this season, hosting a Muslim team from Yorkshire and a club from the same Buenos Aires slum where Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...

Pope Francis was a priest, archbishop in Buenos Aires Made a name for himself visiting the city's slums Local residents remember Francis as humble and open Pope died this week in the Vatican aged 88 ...