Pope Leo XIV starts his Argentina visit at a Catholic home for 400 people with disabilities, with Javier Milei's spending cuts setting up a clash of agendas.
Leonardo Bertulazzi, 74, convicted in absentia for a 1977 kidnapping, escaped house arrest in Buenos Aires by abseiling from a balcony; police are hunting him.
Authorities say 2.5 million people attended Pope Leo XIV's Mass in Palermo, Buenos Aires, the first papal Mass in Argentina since John Paul II's 1987 visit.
Pope Leo XIV told Javier Milei in Buenos Aires that Argentina's economy must serve its people, in a critique of the president's austerity on a 12-day tour.
Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro landed at Miami's Opa-locka Executive Airport on Wednesday, two days after losing the runoff to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.