Buenos AiresJavier Milei has refused to recognise Lula’s election win.
Argentina and Brazil, its largest trading partner, face one of their tensest moments.
Brazil recalled its ambassador and summoned Argentina’s envoy after Milei backed Flávio Bolsonaro, who fled to the US through Argentina.
“Argentina is called to preserve this willingness to engage in dialogue,” Pope Leo XIV said beside Milei.
Leo is not visiting Brazil, and leaves Argentina for Peru on Wednesday.
How each outlet framed it
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- Bloomberg Business
- Financial Times News
- reads Leo's remarks as veiled criticism of Milei's austerity and frames the visit as the most fraught stop of the tour
- Hindustan Times leans critical
- frames the papal visit through the Brazil-Argentina rift, citing Milei's role in Flávio Bolsonaro's flight to the US
- Al Jazeera Online
- notes the first papal visit to Argentina since 1987 and the shrinking Catholic share of Latin America's population
Sources: Bloomberg Business, Financial Times News, Hindustan Times, Al Jazeera Online