U.S. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano accused the Pope of covering up reports of sexual abuse by a U.S. cardinal in an 11-page letter. When Pope Francis was asked about the accusations on his flight back from Ireland, he said that he would not say a single word in response.
Che Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary allied with Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution.
Soccer great Lionel Messi and his Argentine teammates are in danger of getting bounced from the World Cup in the group stage following a 3-0 loss to Croatia. Argentina finished runner-up in 2014, with its captain named the tournament's top player.
Argentine tennis player Juan Martin del Potro upset Roger Federer to win the 2009 U.S. Open singles title.
Juan Perón was a military officer and politician who was elected president of Argentina three times.
Uruguayan-born writer Horacio Quiroga penned short stories inspired by the jungle before committing suicide in 1937. He is considered among the greatest Latin American storytellers of all time.
Argentine soccer great Alfredo Di Stéfano won two European Player of the Year awards and led Real Madrid to a record five straight European Cup championships.
Soccer great Diego Maradona led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup, though his accomplishments were later overshadowed by his battles with drug abuse.
Luis Federico Leloir received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and study of sugar nucleotides.
Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentinian doctor whose research on the role of pituitary hormones regulating blood sugar won him a Nobel Prize.
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works have become classics of 20th-century world literature.
Argentine musician Astor Piazzolla composed and performed music for the bandoneón, and fused tango music with jazz and classical for a whole new sound.
General Jorge Rafaél Videla's government was responsible for a campaign of suppression and human rights abuses that became known as Argentina's "dirty war."
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was a writer and scholar who became president of Argentina in 1868.
Raúl Alfonsín was an Argentine lawyer, politician and is known best for being the first democratically elected president of Argentina.
President of Guatemala Juan José Arévalo pursued a nationalistic foreign policy while internally encouraging the labor movement and instituting social reforms.
Isabel Peron is a former president of Argentina. She was the first non-royal female head of state in the Western Hemisphere.
Manuel Puig was an Argentine writer known for his film scripts and novels, notably Kiss of the Spider Woman.
César Milstein developed monoclonal antibody production and received a Nobel Prize in 1984. Monoclonal antibodies are used in pregnancy tests and diagnosing diseases.
Known as "the father of the poor," Hipolito Irigoyen was Argentina's first president elected by its citizenry (1916).
Argentine soldier, statesman, and national hero José de San Martín helped lead the revolutions against Spanish rule in Argentina, Chile and Peru.