2024-02-12 22:33:43
In another chapter of “if you don’t like my convictions, I have others,” the president Javier Miley seems to have forgotten the insults and grievances he leveled against the Pope Franciscowhom he even called “the representative of the evil one” on Earth, to now account for “a positive relationship.”
“You evolve, things are understood and one of the things that I have understood in recent times is that The Pope is the person, the most important Argentine institution, he is the leader of Catholics in the world.o,” Milei said in an interview with the Italian media Network 4.
The Argentine president’s statements took place this Monday, after the meeting he held with the Pope in the Vatican. “I had to reconsider some positions and, from that moment, we began to build a positive bond,” said Milei, but without any intention of apologizing for what was previously said.
Likewise, he recognized that Francisco, whom until a few months ago he treated as a communist and even claimed that “he is the representative of evil on Earth,” “represents a very important institution, especially in a country like Argentina that has many Catholic roots.”
And as if this were not enough, Milei also defined himself as a “Catholic” who also “practices a little Judaism.”. This was at least striking, given that during his visit to Israel, just four days ago, the Argentine president even overplayed his closeness to the most retrograde in religious terms.
A president with a short memory
Despite this attempt to change the attitude and “reconsider some positions”, the truth is that Milei’s attacks on Francisco, before and during the election campaign 2023, They were systematic.
In an interview prior to making his candidacy official, he treated him as a communist and came to assure: “The Pope is the representative of the evil one on Earth, occupying the throne of the house of God”.
Further back in time, in February 2022, the ultra-liberal published a insult against the pontiff on his social networks when he, during a speech in the Vatican, condemned tax evasion. “Your model is poverty,” Milei posted and accused the Catholic leader of being “always standing on the side of evil”. “If someone has a fit of charity and goes out with a gun to steal to finance it, will you bless them?” she wrote.
Six months later, In August, he infuriated his criticism and called Bergoglio a “Jesuit who promotes communism.”called him an “unpresentable and disastrous character,” and accused him of having “an affinity for murderous communists.”
Finally, in September and during an interview with the American TV presenter, Tucker Carlson, Milei accused the Pope of “playing politically”, of being “on the side of bloody dictatorships” and to be “condescending to all those on the left, even if they are true murderers.”