Posted on 04/04/2023 6:19:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
SÃO PAULO – During an interview with an Argentinian TV station aired on March 30, Pope Francis claimed that Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, convicted of bribery and imprisoned in 2018, and former President Dilma Rousseff, impeached due to alleged budgetary manipulation in 2016, were both victims of judicial persecution.
His comments sparked anger among the supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro and other conservatives.
The pontiff’s one-hour-long interview with journalist Gustavo Sylvestre of the Argentinian news channel C5N was recorded prior to his hospitalization on March 29. They discussed several themes, including Latin American politics and the Argentinian upcoming elections in October.
At this point, Sylvestre asked him about the lawfare thesis, the alleged instrumentalization of the juridical system by political forces in order to persecute and criminalize electoral opponents.
Many left-wing leaders in the region claim that they have been subjected to lawfare, like Argentinian Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, convicted in 2022 for corruption, and Lula, who was going to run for president against Bolsonaro in 2018 and ended up being arrested and impeded to do so.
“Lawfare begins… the means of communication open the way. ‘We have to prevent that person from reaching that office,’ and then they hit the person. […] They disqualify the person and raise suspicions of a crime,” described Pope Francis.
The pontiff added that a huge casefile is then produced, one that does not contain evidence of a crime, but “the (large) volume of the summary” is enough to get the person convicted.
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ANTI pope Francis.
Relevant.
Pope Ché.
Wonder if he’ll say the same about Trump?
Will Francis say the same about Trump? (That’s a rhetorical question)
I liked Francis during his first year. At that time, he appeared to be humble. Now? He's all about social justice. If he's really the Pope, he's not supposed to be doing that.
IOW, don't mix religion with politics and the Pope is a political figure.
Also on his religious views on proselytizing, didn’t Jesus and the Disciples do that very thing?
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