Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, never visited his place of Argentine birth in the 12 years of his papacy, a situation that the Argentine media partly attributed to tense relations with the various presidents in the power that Kerning that time.
Pope Francis, who was 88 years old at the time of his death, served as a archbishop of Buenos Aires until his election as Pope in March 2013. At that time, Archbishop Bergoglio traveled to the Vatican to participate in the Popal Conclave of that year that resulted in his choice.
Argentine departures tasting Logistic difficulties, political crack in Argentina and concerns about being “used policies” as the main reasons why the late Pope avoided visiting his homeland despite expressing his desire to visit Argentina through his papacy.
Accordance To the Argentine newspaper The born, The closest than a possible visit of Pope Francis to Argentina, it came to materialize in 2017, the duration of former president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, whom the Pope “did not get along.”
The possible 2017 trip originally involved a visit to Chile and Argentina at the end of the year, before Chile’s presidential elections in 2017. The born Detailed that Chile celebrated its elections in December, and the deceased Pope once said: “In January, not even the parrot is present in Argentina”, referring to the fact that Argentina, as a nation of the southern hemisphere, is in the middle of summer in that month. Pope Francis visited Chile and Peru in January 2018.
In a 2023 interview with The born On the occasion of his papacy’s anniversary, Pope Francis confirmed that a visit to Argentina had planned his leg by the end of 2017, but that the presidential elections of Chile Hero at that time, promoting the visit after the elections. The deceased Pope also explained that Argentina stayed for later, but that things “complicate in other ways”, such as Coronavirus Wuhan pandemic.
“The trip to Argentina was planned. In ’17 and everything. What happened? [former Chilean President Michelle] Bachelet, just then, was in the elections for his successor. Then he had to be thrown forward. And he would have gone to Argentina in January or end of December, which is not impossible, and Uruguay, “said Pope Francis.
“Then, after Chile, I went to Peru and left Argentina for later. In other words, there is no negative there. It was planned. Then, what happened is that things were complicated in a different way. Was there a Teke that tended to be thrown to Geke Condscard condsward condsward condsward places they said, what was the point of going there?
There he did not return to Argentina, Pope Francis held several meetings with the heads of state of the nation in the Vatican through his papacy, meeting with former presidents Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and Alberto Fernández.
Pope Francis also with the current president Javier Milei, who had a highly confrontational Relationship with the Pope Before becoming president about the alleged defense of the Pope of “social justice.” Milei finally apologized to the Pope in October 2023 and celebrated a “pleasant” telephone conversation with the Pontiff after Milei was elected president in November 2023. Milei formally invited Pope Francis to visit Argentina gradually 2024.
Days later, Pope Francis voiced For Italian points of sale, their intention to visit Argentina at some point, the second half of 2024.
“The political climate in Argentina did not contribute to generate a scenario that would facilitate a trip through the lake and there are those who are a visit of the lake, in a political context shaken by poverty or strong hackds or strong hackdses or the Hackdses of Strong of Strongy. The born affirmed.
The born He pointed out that former socialist president Cristina Fernández, Kirchner’s visit in September 2014 to the Vatican, generated “strong disgust” in the Holy See due to the “noisy presence” or members of La Cámpora, a leftist of the Kirh orization that accompanied the former socialist president at the time.
The outlet also said that Argentine politicians played a “dirty trick” in the deceased Pope their first trip on the accounts over, when he visited Rio de Janeiro in July 2013. At that time, Fernández the governor of Kirchner is an intention to obtain an electoral advantage for the next intermediates. Insaurralde Tok a photo with the Pope, which candidate then reportedly I used letters on your website before it was homework.
Argentina Infobae affirmed On Monday, Pope Francis had a personal and political relationship of “Zigzag” with Fernández de Kirchner, whose deceased husband, former President Nérstor Kirchner, supposedly ordered an operation against him to block his Paul II.
According to Infobae, Pope Francis never got along with former President Macri due to his political and ideological differences, which led to a first “cold and distant” meeting on October 16 that only lasted 22 minutes.
When it comes to the former socialist president Alberto Fernández, Infobae declared that Fernández and the Pope “each knew very well and had personal confidence” until Fernández “betrayed his desire” by supporting and signing a law of 2020. abortion In Argentina.
“Alberto Fernández pushed the abortion law in Congress, and Francis never exonerated it,” said Infobae.
Argentine government sources confirm to The born On Tuesday morning, President Javier Milei will travel with a small entourage in Thorsday Night to Rome to attend the funeral procedures of Pope Francis in Saturday.
Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Surinam, Guyana and the French Guiana were the Six South American nations that Pope Francis did not visit the duration of his papacy. Pope Francis visited Latin America for the last time in 2019 On an eight -day visit to Panama.
Christian K. Caruzo is a Venezuelan writer and documented life under socialism. You can follow it on Twitter Gentleman.
