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Wikileaks And The New Pope
Wikileaks: Involvement of Pope with a weakened dictatorship with criticism of Kirchner
A paper on the subject was prepared by the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires in October 2007.
Opera Mundi
The involvement of the then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio with the crimes committed by the Argentine dictatorship weakened their criticism of the political and economic decisions of the Kirchner government, according to the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires. The revelation about the new Pope, who chose the name Francis to use in his pontificate, was made by the website Wikileaks in 2011, based on an original telegram dated October 11, 2007.
A few months earlier, in May 2007, the government of Nestor Kirchner was widely criticized within Argentina and the president did not know if he should seek reelection or cast his wife, Senator Cristina Kirchner then, as a candidate. The idea was to wait as long as possible and only advertise the application in July of that year.
Strikes by teachers in the province of Santa Cruz caused the resignation of the provincial governor on May 9. A corruption scandal involving several ministers and public tensions with the Catholic Church were some of the challenges of Kirchner. A second telegram from the U.S. embassy leaked by Wikileaks, is that one of the most vocal critics of the government was that of Cardinal Bergoglio.
Relations between the Kirchner government and the Church worsened when former Bishop Joaquin Pina prevented Carlos Rovira, Kirchner governor of the province of Missiones, wanted to make a change in the law approving successive reelection. The proposal was defeated by more than 13 percentage points. Kirchner, at the time, came to declare that “God has no party” and therefore the Church should not meddle in politics.
