No one is a prophet in his land, Jesus warns in the Gospel of Luke – even, apparently, the Pope. Francis It was widely common around the world, especially among liberals. Near the end of his life, although his approval classifications were flooded in the United States, where he angered conservatives, and although he still has more than seventy percent in some Latin American countries-Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru-supporting. But in any country there was no more clear decrease than it was in his Argentine hometown, where his interest in the past year decreased twenty -seven points less than ninety -one percent he received at the time of his election, ten years ago.
This will not be a surprise for anyone familiar with extremist political polarization that has become special for Argentina. In this climate, Francis was also seen as an exciting personality. In the country of the Catholic majority, the vote of a church was traditionally, along with the two conservative mechanisms. He has found himself at odds with almost every administration during the past two decades. Once he went to the Vatican, as the first Argentine Pope in history, he never visited, unlike his predecessors, his homeland. However, he continued to fuel the polarization there – but this time, to surprise everyone, from the left.
Francis, who was born Jorge Mario Bergolio, was born in Buenos Aires in 1936, was immersed in the nation’s struggles since the beginning of his career in the church. At an early age of thirty -sixth, in 1973, he was appointed to lead the Jesuit Medal in Argentina and Uruguay, a role he preserved during the first half of the last military dictatorship in Argentina. His behavior was during that period, along with many other church leaders, The topic of a lot of speculationEspecially with regard to the kidnapping and torture of priests, Orlando Eurio and Franz Galix. (They were ultimately released.) The Bergulio’s involvement evidence was found in any crimes, but many of them felt that He didn’t do enough To save lives.
Politically, Bergolio was a right-wing socialist and popular conservative. (As he wrote in his autobiography, “HopAnd “published in January,” is about to be close to adolescence, began to take care of the social reforms that Peron was implementing, and began to feel some admiration for him. “He felt close to the poor, they lived politely, and he could often drink from the Pinos residents. Buenos Aires School in 1990. After that, he lived in conjunction with the head of the neoliberal Birons Carlos Minim, and his government succeeded him after the death of the bow, in 1998.
As the bishop, Bergoglio played a more opposition role, criticizing MENEM policies in the free market. Washington Orangea, a veteran religious column writer in the newspaper Página/12He told me that Bergulio was a “prevailing idea” in a Catholic state in Latin America: that the church president had a decisive influence on national affairs, which had a relationship with decades with Bergolio, that Bergolio represents a “prevailing idea” said Orangea, “once, I told him,” the president wants to see you. “He said,” Let him come. ” Bishop of Buenos Aires. “
The presidency of the husband and wife of Nestor Kirchner and Christina Fernadiz de Kirchner dominated the country’s political scene for the majority of Bergulio as bishops. Nestor became president in 2003 and intervened in 2007, after which Christina left him. Kirchners Peronists, like Bergoglio, was more advanced on social issues, and opposed them from the beginning. Nestor won the 2003 elections with only twenty -two percent of the votes after Minim withdrawn from the race. Bergulio asked Kirchner’s legitimacy and regularly criticized his economic policies, especially the agricultural export tax, which divides the country more by taking advantage of the old divisions on the role of the state, economic policy and the distribution of wealth. The relationship has become a public confrontation that the president referred to the head of the bishop as “the spiritual leader of the opposition.”
The low point in that relationship came in 2010, when Christina Kirchner was president and the government was trying to pass a law to marry homosexuals. Bergolio, in a letter to a group of Carmel nuns that were leaked to the press, wrote that gay marriage was “the envy of Satan, through which sin entered the world, brilliantly seeking to destroy the image of God: the man and the woman who receives an authorization to increase the land and dominate the land.” He wrote the draft law that was “a war against God.” It was passed after three weeks.
In October of October, Nestore died due to heart disease, and Bergoglio was called in the month following his testimony before a committee of judges on kidnapping, more than thirty years ago, from the Jesuit priests. (JUNTA members were tried in the eighty, but MENEM has pardoned them and closed investigations into human rights violations; the amnesty was canceled in the shadow of Kirchners and reopened investigations.)
Christina Kirchner was still president when Bergolio was elected in March 2013. The country celebrated his escalation as a source of great pride: it was the first door of Latin America. Kirchner’s popularity, in the meantime, decreased due to the scandals of corruption and the weak economy. However, to surprise the country (I was then a political correspondent at Buenos Aires), the hostility between the opponents. Kirchner only had the general praise of the new Pope. He got seven times in the next two years, before he stepped down from the presidency, including a two and a half hours lunch on the first anniversary of his door. The meetings often involve the exchange of studied gifts: Initially, I brought it a complex lottery; She gave her her shoes and socks of her first child. While he was still president, Kirchner ignited attempts to legalize abortion, in what many analysts saw as a gesture of goodwill towards Francis.
Pope Francis was almost unknown to the Argentine. Bergolio was a strict personality. Francis was a wide and gentle man. He himself admitted this shift in his autobiography. “Does anyone understand this Pope?” He quotes Christina Kirchner saying. “When he was in Argentina, he had a face. [and here she used a rude word]And now smile for the whole world! An Italian bishop also recalls, saying: “I only had one doubt about Bergolio, he was never sacrificed. . . . And now he does this all the time, he always has a smile. Call for more social justice In the world, even retract some previous situations. “If someone is homosexual and searches for the Lord and has good faith, then who is judging him?” The famous said. The new trend made it be very popular all over the world.
