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 ...

I lived in the suburbs of Buenos Aires as a child and had visited on various occasions since then. We first went to Buenos Aires on our honeymoon in 2013. We loved it so much that we joked about ...

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 to visit ...

In this immense swath of tree-lined neighborhoods co-existing with areas of chaos — apparently built with little if any urban planning — many residents have erected ... BUENOS AIRES, Argentina ...

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.

After spending seven years in Buenos Aires in the '90s and early 2000s, Abel moved back in 2016. He’s proudly “bahiense” — that is, from Bahía Blanca, the home of former NBA star Manu ...

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