Milagro Sala’s arrest has generated concern in Catholic church that new centre-right president and his allies are determined to assume on social movementsThe arrest of a current community activist in northern Argentina on charges of corruption has caused tension between Argentina’s new centre-right president Mauricio Macri and another prominent Argentinian: Pope Francis.
The pope,a former archbishop of Buenos Aires, is an outspoken supporter of Argentina’s social movements, or the associations of unemployed workers,human rights advocates or environmental activists that often step in to fulfill the duties of an absent state in the country’s poorer provinces.
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Source: theguardian.com