First visit of Benedict XVI

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First visit to Mexico
First visit of Benedict XVI
By: Carlos Damián April 7, 2012
It is a trip of business and political
México. - The first visit of Benedict XVI to Mexico that begins in Guanajuato (3/23/12) for their high incidence of Catholic, it is a fork of meanings pastorals and political that distant of being encouraging for our country. In the first of those environments, we will already investigate on their speeches pronounced by the pontiff during their demurrage in the country, a first inadmissible aspect of its visit to Mexico is that the Vatican has not accepted to carry out the encounter some with the numerous victims of pederasty and other sexual crimes made by priests: this encounter would be reasonable and necessary.

This circumstance is necessary not only because Joseph Ratzinger, the Pope of the sharp teeth has maintained similar encounters with victims in other parts of the world, but also for the paper that carried out in the concealment of those crimes in Mexico, particularly those of the leader of Christ's Legion, Marcial Maciel. Certainly this forces to -even remember the proverbial indolence of the Vatican of local clerical sectors - before the social, political and institutional flagellums that travel the region, among those that highlight the poverty, the inequality, the educational inadequacy, unhealthy, the corruption of the ruling elites, the discrimination of the indigenous towns, the persistent insults to the human rights and the disintegration of the social fabric caused by the neoliberal politicians, the increment of the criminal violence, and certainly, the criminal behaviors made by members of the own Church.
Freedom Catholic nun
Benedict XVI opens up step for diplomatic effects as boss of State of the Vatican but in the facts it will only act as religious leader in expansion plan. He talked with president Calderon about “religious freedom” and he will have politically to their feet to the three main candidates to the presidency of the country, well the candidate of right-side of the Panal is a bad joke. To who were not summoned to a political act or of State but only to a mass low multitudinous Cristo King's image, subjected this way expressly to the ecclesiastical power, as much Josefina Vazquez Mota as Enrique Peña Nieto for vocation and electoral calculation and AMLO for it second.

For what plays to the political aspect, the visit coincides with an advance and worry invigoration of traditional postures of the Catholic Church in the public calendar and national legislative notebook. Although some of these advances have been come consolidating for years, others seem accidentally to be related with the visit from the Pope to Mexico, like it happens with the recent modification to the article 24 of the Constitution as regards religious freedom, and it is unavoidable to perceive in this coincidence, a desire of authorities and popular representatives to ingratiate with the high Catholic clergy of face to the Pope’s tour that today begins. The clearly political positions of the Catholic Church that are coincidences with the appearance in Mexico of the Virgin Maria among them can mention the initiatives that penalize the interruption of the pregnancy in more than the entities of the country.
Expansion of the Vatican
The Pope's visit will complete three objectives: it will impel and it will strengthen the spirits of the right-wing of the parties of the PRI, PAN, and Panal, when they only lack 100 days for the Mexican elections, in the one that the followers of Calderon will play their records to continue in the control of their political and economic platform, of which we will mention the process of reformations to the articles 24 and 40 that consolidate the Catholic religious freedom and the second step will be a reformation to remove give up impelled that Carlos Salinas' politics projecting their reformations behind 30 years of neo-liberalism, and with this they will confront its politico-economic power with the main Mexican characters, where they are congregated to PRI candidate’s favor.

This Pope comes mounted in the memory of II Juan Pablo’s visits and his doctrine and proposals make think of a reestablishment of the Half Age in Mexico, we have to wake up and to see clearly that their proposals are to maintain the status quo, to maintain low profile the accusations of priests pederasts, and the abuses of power with expressions detests them as that of the worshipped founder of Christ's Legion, Marcial Maciel, to silence files like those that accused the own Cardinal Norberto Rivera of protecting to criminal pederasts in his time.

In the political context it would be valid to remember to the candidate of the PAN who considered the UNAM like a "monster" and with students that are apathetic to the matters of the profession, since wrote it two decades ago approximately in their professional thesis, they also pursue her the shades of the past for their approval to Augusto Pinochet's politics in Chile and to the iron lady Margaret Thatcher in England, for what has been reproached in Argentina by means of blankets and watchwords. Congratulations to AMLO for their nomination like candidate to the presidency of the Republic and the unfavorable conditions when registering before the IFE, although it has used their little memory like political strategy of alteration and loving when remembering the aggressive politicians that it subjected it the current political system.

Waiting that it doesn't repeat the episode of the IFE in an electoral process corrupted in 2006 that ended in an artificial social division, sinking to the country in the crisis of national security and campaigns of fear again, although AMLO has demanded legally the IFE. Shortly this visit allows seeing that it is not only a pastoral visit but to the big spaces of the maneuver margins with those that it has the Catholic clergy to recover of losses of historical powering that, they were irreversible. They close, in form inversely proportional, the spaces for the civic development of a plural, fair, free, diverse and tolerant society. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 6- 8, March 23, 2012)