![]() A “Peronist Pope” had taken up residence in the Vatican. For the past 10 years, every message from the Vatican has been analyzed in Buenos Aires, measuring the extent of a smile with various politicians or a certain gesture made to a former president. The delay of an official visit to Argentina has been fodder for all kinds of political speculation back home, and is now reactivated by the 10th anniversary of his papacy.Īrgentinians see Francis as one of their own and tend to place him at the center of the country’s politics. But once he became Pope Francis, he never made it back. “See you when I get back,” he told Father Jorge Russo, rector of the Metropolitan Cathedral on Februwhen, as Cardinal, he was leaving Buenos Aires for Rome to participate in the papal conclave that would elect a successor to Benedict XVI. ![]() Pope Francis and the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, on Januin Vatican City. ![]()
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