Pope Francis and Lula da Silva met at the Vatican in a meeting that revolved around the fight against inequalities and the environmental issue, as the former brazilian representative said.” When Francis takes the attitude of convening a meeting in Assisi to discuss inequalities with thousands of young people, a new world economy, I see it as an encouraging decision of the Pope,” Lula said after the meeting.
Francis’ only encounter with a Brazilian representative was in February 2014, when he received Lula’s successor, Dilma Rousseff, as he never met Michel Temer, who took power between August 2016 and December 31, 2018 , and has not yet met with the current president, Jair Bolsonaro.In recent years, the pontiff and the leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) agreed to denounce the so-called “lawfare” as a media-judicial coordination mechanism to pursue and prosecute imprison political leaders in South America.
The meeting also took place a day after the Pope published his exhortation “Dear Amazon”, in which he denounced the activities of multinational companies in the region and demands responses from the governments of the nine countries occupying the jungle, including That of Bra sil.” Pope Francis said yesterday that the Amazon is his, which is from all over the world; Coincidentally I was with the Argentine ambassador yesterday, the Pope is Argentinian but God is Brazilian,” Bolsonaro said smilingly in front of the presidential residence this morning.
