Pope begins lengthy trip to Latin America weeks after lung cancer surgery
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Pope Leo XIV landed in Uruguay on Friday to begin a 12-day tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, three weeks after lung cancer surgery.
The 71-year-old pope had part of his right lung removed last month, and his doctors confirmed the cancer had not spread.
The Vatican says he has fully healed and that no special precautions are being taken for the trip.
The tour covers about 31,000km across 10 cities and includes 36 speeches, with Peru, where he spent decades as a missionary, as the final stop.
The Vatican estimated 30,000 people turned out to see him in Montevideo, in the first papal visit to Uruguay in nearly four decades.
On Sunday he crosses into Argentina, where he is due to address President Javier Milei, who once called the late Pope Francis "evil on earth".
“I confess that from the first day, I had no doubt and was convinced that this trip had to go forward”
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