In Argentina, the view from below is not nearly so pretty as the vineyards of Mendoza:
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the highest authority of the Catholic Church in Argentina, criticized the lack of action against poverty in Argentina and warned of a “dramatic situation” as he was leading the traditional San Cajetan mass, a day after the Church unveiled a statement from Pope Benedict XVI denouncing a state of “scandalous poverty.”
“We’re noticing situation of dramatic poverty and unemployment,” said Bergoglio in Liniers. “More and more people are sleeping in the streets, and they have become disposable materials,” he added. Bergoglio, a critic of the Kirchner administration, echoed the word of the Pope and said the local church also noticed “scandalous poverty.”
More at the Buenos Aires Herald.
Yea and a large share of the blame can be pinned on the catholic church itself. After the Spaniards destroyed their country the Catholic church then proceeded to enslave them further by ramming a statist, spiritually dead, authoritarian religion right down their throats. Now that centuries have passed and the age of secularism has arrived is it any wonder these poor people have accepted the lies of Socialism and lack any motivation to throw off the yoke of tyranny? Of course not the catholic church prepared future generations for just this scenario. Only instead of the catholic church now holding the reigns of power it is instead the Secular State.