Pope Leo heads to Milei's Argentina as tensions loom over austerity, Iran
The visit comes as Argentine church leaders criticize Milei’s spending cuts, with poverty at 32.3% and tensions over social welfare growing.
- On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV arrived in Argentina following his Uruguay tour, where President Milei is scheduled to greet him at the airport for a traditional welcome ceremony.
- Since taking office in December 2023, Milei implemented sweeping austerity measures, including a 48 percent health care budget slash that intensified friction with church leaders criticizing his economic orthodoxy.
- Security officials reported a Saturday arrest regarding death threats against Leo, while posters reading "At last, a Lion who unites" appeared across Buenos Aires playing on the president's imagery.
- Karina Milei, the president's sister and secretary general of the presidency, insisted the trip is "purely religious," while theology professor David Lantigua anticipates tensions mirroring those faced by Pope Francis.
- Official data indicates poverty reached 32.3 percent of Argentina's population in early 2026, affecting about 15 million people amid deep polarization surrounding the pope's visit.
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Pope Leo heads to Milei’s Argentina as tensions loom over austerity, Iran
By Leila Miller and Joshua McElwee Pope Leo heads to Argentina on Sunday for the second leg of a 12-day tour across South America, kicking off the visit with a closely watched speech to Argentine President Javier Milei, a libertarian seen as a close ally of Donald Trump. The address by the first US-born pope […]
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After asking in Uruguay that people be placed before the algorithm, urging young people to marry and have children, without being able to make public their Christian faith, Pope Leon XIV was preparing this Sunday to cross the Río de la Plata and start the most complex stretch of his South American tour. Javier Milei is waiting for him in Argentina. The ultra-rightist will receive him at the Jorge Newbery airport in the city of Buenos Aires, alon…
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Pope Leo XIV Travels to Argentina for Historic Visit as Economic Policies and Iran War Divide Vatican and Milei
The first American-born pope will meet Argentine President Javier Milei during a landmark South American tour, with disagreements over government spending, poverty and international conflicts ... The post Pope Leo XIV Travels to Argentina for Historic Visit as Economic Policies and Iran War Divide Vatican and Milei first appeared on [your]NEWS.
He will celebrate Mass. A face to face with Milei (ANSA)
All the intimacy of the visit of the Holy Father in a special coverage of Clarín in the place of events and with the look of a specialist. Third delivery, from Uruguay.
The first American pope, but with strong ties to Latin America – in fact, he has Peruvian nationality – concludes his visit to Uruguay on Sunday, November 8, the first stop of his tour of the region. In the next few hours he will address neighboring Argentina, where his words are expected to be examined with magnifying glass and under the gaze of President Javier Milei, considered a close ally of Donald Trump.
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