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Harriet Barber in Buenos Aires

‘He listened to everyone’: Buenos Aires remembers pope as voice for the poor

Pope on metro
Pope Francis takes the metro in Buenos Aires in May 2008. Photograph: Emiliano Lasalvia/LatinContent/Getty Images

Before he left Argentina and moved to Italy to become pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio would visit the country’s villas miserias, not in a car flanked by security guards, but by bus – and this is what his people remember.

“He would come here, kiss our feet, the feet of the people,” said Aida Bogarin, aged 44. “It was everything to us.”

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