New York Post : Pope Francis : the corrupt leftist, populist and demagogue governments of Latin America should be scared. - Pope Francis always criticized corruption in Argentina's two last Governments. The current Argentine regime is a paragon of thievery, lies and fraud

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The ruined Venezuela of the late Hugo Chavez; the silence-the-media tyranny of Rafael Correa in Ecuador; the living-dead rulers of Cuba, and Argentina’s economy-wrecking government. The New Pope is not going to be best friend of these corrupt regimes.

New York Post
Smearing the Pope
Don’t lie to me, ArgentinaMarch 19, 2013


By RALPH PETERS


Smearing the Pope


Some excerpts :

Argentine opinion polls run hugely in favor of the new pope, while the numbers for the president and her economically incompetent and increasingly dictatorial government have been plummeting.

Faced with crushing inflation (about which the regime lies shamelessly) and increasing hardship, Argentine voters have a severe case of political buyer’s remorse.

And along comes Pope Francis, who literally kisses the feet of the poor, who’s admired by his country’s mainstream-Protestant, Evangelical, Jewish and Muslim communities and who rejects the trappings of power and comforts of wealth.

Each May, in Buenos Aires Cathedral, then-Cardinal Bergoglio delivered the traditional sermon during the great Te Deum mass celebrating Argentina’s 1810 Revolution. Even as the government crushed one free media outlet after another, it couldn’t silence the cardinal. He inveighed each year against public and personal corruption and growing totalitarianism. Everyone listening knew who he meant.

The government tried everything, even moving the Te Deum celebrations to other cities. Nothing worked.

Meanwhile, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner rejected all dialogue with the cardinal, refusing at least 14 requests for meetings. Now she’had to make a pilgrimage yesterday to pay homage to the holy man she mocked. (She tried, deviously, to turn the situation to her advantage by involving the pope in the Falklands/Malvinas stand-off with Britain.)

The new generation of leftist regimes pocking Latin America (the ruined Venezuela of the late Hugo Chavez; the silence-the-media tyranny of Rafael Correa in Ecuador; the living-dead rulers of Cuba, and Argentina’s economy-wrecking government) dread the possibility that Pope Francis will be as disastrous for Latin leftist regimes as Pope John Paul II was for the Soviet Bloc.

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