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Perón and the Pope
Until Pope Francis’s election, the most famous Argentine leader of modern times was its former president Juan Domingo Perón. At catholicworldreport.com, Samuel Gregg noted that the two share a few things in common. When made president, “Perón swiftly introduced labour laws that favoured employees and trade unions”, and earned the love of the working-class and the poor. That focus on the poor is also part of Francis’s style – though it’s worth noting that as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Bergoglio “often challenged Argentina’s Perónist presidents, Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, who dominated Argentine politics between 2003 and 2015.”
