One of the 864 ‘villa miserias’ that surround Buenos Aires city Over half a million families live in 864 slums and irregular settlements in metropolitan Buenos Aires surrounding Argentina’s ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - In the impoverished Buenos ... later earning him the nickname of "papa villero", or slum pope. Reuters spoke to half a dozen residents and churchgoers in those ...

In the last two decades of the 19th century, the dance known as the tango emerges out of the immigrant culture of Argentina's dockside slums ... in the brothels of Buenos Aires, where it is ...

had served as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires where his closeness to the poor earned him a nickname: "the slum pope." "I pray for him to have a speedy recovery," 55-year-old housewife Dora Calvo ...

Maradona was a uniquely gifted player who rose from the tough streets of Buenos Aires slums to reach the pinnacle of his sport. The 1986 World Cup included a quarter-final game against England ...

BUENOS AIRES — In the impoverished Buenos Aires neighborhood of ... later earning him the nickname of "papa villero," or slum pope. Rita Fernandez, 70, walks outside the Virgen de Caacupe chapel.