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  • 2 days ago | batimes.com.ar | Sonia Avalos |James Grainger

    At the school in Buenos Aires where he started his religious journey at the young age of five, the nuns remember the boy who would later become Pope Francis as "mischievous." A boisterous child, he played football with his friends in the courtyard, and sprinted up and down the marble stairs. "They say he was rather mischievous," recounted Teresa Rovira, a teacher at the Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia kindergarten where then-Jorge Bergoglio enrolled in the early 1940s.

  • 3 days ago | batimes.com.ar | Sonia Avalos |James Grainger

    Before being named as head of the Catholic Church, Jorge Bergoglio served as archbishop of Buenos Aires, the city of his birth, with which he always maintained fraternal ties. His legacy lives on in the neighbourhood of Flores, at his beloved San Lorenzo football club, and in the shantytowns he regularly visited.

  • 3 days ago | batimes.com.ar | Sonia Avalos |Philippe BERNES-LASSERRE |James Grainger

    Pope Francis navigated a complex relationship with politics in Argentina, a juggling act observers say explains why he never once returned to the country that informed his love for the downtrodden, for tango and for soccer. "See you soon," then-cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was reported as declaring as he left Buenos Aires in 2013 to take up his papal duties at the Vatican.

  • 1 week ago | barrons.com | Sonia Avalos |Leila Macor

    Argentina's currency dropped 8.4 percent against the US dollar as markets opened in Buenos Aires Monday, after the partial lifting of exchange controls in place for six years. The rate settled at 1,190 pesos to the dollar, according to state-owned Banco Nacion, well within the floating band of 1,000 to 1,400 pesos to the dollar set by Argentine authorities Friday. The Central Bank can intervene to keep the rate within the range.

  • 2 months ago | therogersvillereview.com | Martín Raschinsky |Sonia Avalos

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