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.
Argentina has lodged a claim with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea seeking to halt oil and gas exploration north of the Falkland Islands.
Argentina's President Javier Milei set a two-week deadline for the UK to scrap the Sea Lion oilfield project, warning he would seek international arbitration.
Argentina's Javier Milei has launched sanctions proceedings against 45 people and companies over the Falklands, as Donald Trump re-evaluates the US stance.