Full text: What Pope Francis said in his first speech as pontiff

[Phillip McCleod]

48. in argentina the finca lords rule with the blessing of dole and del monte

as do similar landowner classes in other nations in central and so. america. they are generally the lighter skinned often u.s. educated children of the grandchildren of conquistadors in the popular imagination and the stars of the telenovellas. 'i rigoberta menchu' offers one insight into the stilted relationship between agribusiness and the poor.. '1000 years of solitude' another. it's circumstances like argentina's under dictatorship that forged liberation theology. it's those very experiences that gave the rcc it's only spit-shine in 1500 years.. and which of course the hierarchy, including the new pope same as the old pope, has explicitly denounced.

capital rules. in argentina and now in vatican city. the rcc isn't pandering to the poor in latin america. it's pandering to the ruling class and speaking the same lingo.. pandering to the poor is what the finca lord's public relations people do, too.