| ID | 146354 |
| Title Proper | Latin American pope in the United States |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Franco, Massimo |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This was perhaps Pope Francis’s most difficult foreign tour. For a 78-year-old Argentinian touching US soil for the first time, it meant arriving at his own Far North, his cultural frontier. Here was ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’, as he recognised at the very beginning of his speech in front of the US Congress, on 24 September 2015 – a captivating start, as to this South American pontiff the US is not simply a great democracy pursuing freedom. It also embodies images of the fatherland of capitalism, of Wall Street’s wild finance, of military primacy and wars, of megacities’ ghettos: all things claimed as seeds of Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s potential anti-Yankeeism. Yet during his 22–27 September trip he was able to cover all the most sensitive topics without great controversy. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 57, No.6; Dec 2015 -Jan 2016: p.69-75 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 57 No 6 |
| Key Words | Latin America ; Cuba ; United States ; Argentina ; Vatican |