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Related: About this forumTortured and murdered: The tragic story of Pope Francis’ Marxist feminist friend
By Uki Goni, The Guardian
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 14:03 EST
He was in his late teens and still some years away from entering the Jesuit Order. She was in her mid-30s, a revolutionary and a feminist far ahead of her time. They met around 1953 or 1954 in the most unlikely of places a laboratory where she worked as a pharmaceutical biochemist and he as an apprentice chemical technician. The two could not have been more dissimilar. Yet they cemented a unique friendship that bridged decades as well as deep political and religious chasms.
The woman was Esther Careaga, a non-believer who, because of her Marxist ideals, disappeared under Argentinas dictatorship in 1977. The man was Jorge Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in March this year.
Careaga had arrived in Buenos Aires as a political exile from neighbouring Paraguay a few years before meeting Bergoglio. She had been a fiery socialist orator and the founder of Paraguays first feminist movement in the 1940s. She toured the towns in the countryside of Paraguay pleading for peoples rights in general, but especially the rights of women, says her daughter Ana María Careaga.
Careaga was one of thousands of people who disappeared between 1976 and 1983, a bloody spree that stopped only after Argentina entered into a losing war with Britain in 1982 over the Falkland Islands. Victims were taken to secret camps, tortured and thrown from military planes drugged but still alive into the South Atlantic Ocean. It was an unsuccessful tactic because sometimes the bodies washed up on shore days later.
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Tortured and murdered: The tragic story of Pope Francis’ Marxist feminist friend (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2013
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libodem
(19,288 posts)1. Man, that reads like
A novel. So interestingly tragic. Nice to bring life to her cause by keeping the story alive.
Thanks for posting this.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)2. interesting....thanks for posting this
there`s many things i could write about the nuns and francis but i won`t.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. Powerful story.
I have read some controversial things about the Pope's involvement during this period in Argentina. I am not sure we will ever know what really transpired or what he did/did not or could/could not do.