The television channel C5N, the newspaper Página 12, El Destape, Clarín, La Nación and several radio stations reproduced the words pronounced by the Supreme Pontiff during a meeting in the Vatican with representatives of social movements from several countries, an event whose motto was Planting a flag in the face of dehumanization.

Silence in the face of injustice opens the way to social division, which generates verbal violence and this is followed by physical violence, which leads to the war of all against all. Therein lies the devil’s tail. I saw a video of a repression a week ago.

Workers, people who were asking for their rights in the street and the police rejected them with something that is the most expensive thing there is, that top quality pepper gas, the Pope pointed out.

They had no right to ask for theirs because they were ‘unruly’, ‘communists’ (…) and the Government put its foot down: instead of paying for social justice, it paid for the pepper spray. It suited them. Keep that in mind, he added.

On September 11, the Argentine police used gas, batons, rubber bullets and hydrant trucks against citizens who rejected the decision of the Chamber of Deputies to back President Javier Milei’s veto of a pension mobility law.

After the invalidation of the law was announced, tension grew in the streets near the Congress and several people were injured, among them a woman who received a rubber bullet wound in the neck and a 10 year old girl, to whom a police officer threw gas directly.

What happened caused great indignation and was questioned by politicians and groups who also accused the police force and the Ministry of Security of trying to distort what happened.

During his speech, the Bishop of Rome affirmed that ‘as long as the problems of the poor are not radically solved, renouncing the absolute autonomy of markets, of financial speculation, and attacking the structural causes of inequality, the problems of the world will not be solved’. ef/abo/mem/gas