Pope “from the end of the world”, unlike his European predecessors, Jorge Mario Bergoglio introduced a perspective from the South, a Latin America version. She surprised, interested, sometimes confused and even scandalized. She immediately enrolled in a globalized world, where the problems are entangled and the actors interdependent. “Everything is linked”he repeated.
For him, conflicts, the disorders come from economic inequalities between countries, the looting of the natural wealth of the south, sales of arms, environmental predation and the pretensions of Westerners to disseminate their way of life, which he called the “Ideological colonization”. Sowing poverty and dislocating traditional social balances, these factors lead to migrations, terrorism and wars. And, in many cases, Western responsibility is engaged.
The United States and Europe are also on the bench of the accused when it closes migrants. To awaken consciences, François has multiplied symbolic gestures. Jostling Europe, “Sterile grandmother” And selfish in his eyes, he went to Lampedusa then to Lesbos, of which he brought back three Syrian families. The Hispanics of the United States, they still remember the giant mass known as Ciudad Juarez in 2016, all against the fence which closes the border between Mexico and its northern neighbor in the countryside of the American primaries, where the construction of a wall, promised by Donald Trump, was a central theme.
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Source: Lemonde