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Pope
Francis Knocked for ‘Mexicanization’
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The Vatican said he meant no
offense
The Vatican said Wednesday that Pope
Francis “absolutely did not intend to
offend the Mexican
people” when he appeared to express
concern that drug
trafficking was making his native
Argentina resemble
Mexico.
Over the weekend, the Pope wrote in
an
email to
Argentine lawmaker and friend Gustavo
Vera,
“Hopefully we are in time to avoid
Mexicanization,”
referring to the country’s drug trade, the
Associated
Press reports. After Vera published the
email on the
website for his organization, the Alameda
Foundation,
Mexico formally complained that the Pope
was
unnecessarily “stigmatizing Mexico”
despite the
country’s efforts to battle drug cartels
there.
In
response, the Vatican sent Mexico’s
ambassador an
official note and said the Pope’s choice
of words were
taken from a informal, private email that
merely
borrowed language Vera himself had used as
lawmaker
battling Argentina’s own drug trade.
“The Pope
intended only to emphasize the
seriousness
of the phenomenon of the drug trafficking
that afflicts
Mexico and other countries in Latin
America,” Vatican
spokesperson Rev. Federico Lombardi said.
“It is
precisely this importance that has made
the fight against
drug trafficking a priority for the
government.”
Source: Time/acessado em
25/02/015