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December 17, 2015

In politically polarized Argentina, some view new president with worry

Nora Morales de Cortinas, a founder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, joins a Dec. 10 protest in Buenos Aires. Within hours of President Mauricio Macri being sworn in as Argentina's new president, she and other Mothers took to the Plaza to reiterate their demands.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - In a sprawling working class parish founded by Jesuit Father Jorge Bergoglio long before he became archbishop of Buenos Aires and later Pope Francis, the faithful are lamenting the results of Argentina's November elections in which businessman Mauricio Macri was elected president.

Published in International