Live: Leon XIV will leave Uruguay and go to Miley's Argentina amid tensions over austerity The first American pope, but with strong ties to Latin America - in fact, he has Peruvian citizenship - ends this Sunday, November 8, his visit to Uruguay, the first stop on his tour of the region. In the next few hours, he will go to neighboring Argentina, where his words are expected to be examined under a magnifying glass and under the gaze of President Javier Maili, who is considered a close ally of Donald Trump.