Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Pope “of the end of the earth”, unlike his European predecessors, infused the Vatican diplomacy with a global southern perspective, specifically that of Latin America. Sometimes he was surprising and fascinating, but he could also leave people bewildered or simply shocked. From the beginning, his approach was based on a world world vision, where the problems are interconnected and interdependent for players. “Everything is connected,” he said.
He saw conflict and disorder as a vote of economic inequality between the counters, the looting of the natural resources of the global southern, the sales of weapons, the environmental predation and the efforts of Westers to promote their way of life, which refers to the “ideological colonization”. When sowing poverty and interrupting traditional social values, these factors had led to migration, terrorism and war, with frequently guilty.
The United States and Europe also blame their doors for migrants. To inspire social awareness, Francis dedicated himself to symbolic gestures. In a movement that sent shock waves through Europe, in his eyes, a “non -fertile grandmother” visited Lampedusa and then lesbos, from where he brought three Syrian families back. Meanwhile, Hispanics in the United States still remember the giant mass in Ciudad Juárez in 2016, held in the Barrier fence along the border between Mexico and its northern neighbor. The Mass was held the duration of the American primary campaign, in which Donald Trump’s promise to build a border wall was a central issue.
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