End of preview - This article contains approximately 1144 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 18 February 2016 (WR-16-07)
No holds barred: Pope wrestles with biggest challenges on Mexico visit
Pope Francis conducted a six-day tour of Mexico from 12 to 17 February, with an itinerary specifically designed to focus on the most persistent and pernicious problems facing the country: drug-trafficking and violence; poverty and marginalisation; and power and corruption. He did not mince his words, subtly censuring the political class and the church hierarchy. But the most enduring legacy of the pope’s visit will be the solidarity he showed with the most downtrodden – indigenous people and the poor, many facing the perilous prospect of migrating northwards to find opportunities. In this sense the pope’s visit was an indictment of President Enrique Peña Nieto, whose main failing during three years of government has been his lack of the common touch.
- No holds barred: Pope wrestles with biggest challenges on Mexico visit
- VENEZUELA: Maduro bites the bullet
- PERU: Reading the runes amid electoral uncertainty
- COLOMBIA: ELN goes on the attack as peace talks founder
- BOLIVIA: Scandal shakes up re-election referendum campaign
- ARGENTINA: Macri’s difficult dealings with the unions
- ARGENTINA: Macri keeps winning over Peronists
- BRAZIL: Rousseff plays stateswoman as impeachment threat recedes
- TRACKING TRENDS
- HAITI: Interim president steps into the breach
- JAMAICA: Electoral campaign turns ugly
- Homicide rate down by over a quarter in Honduras
- Quotes of the week