First confrontation between the Vatican and Bolsonaro …

From Brasilia. "Like in the dictatorship." The Brazilian Church reacted by this sentence to the statements of General Augusto Heleno against the Panamazonian synod convened by Pope Francis. For Bishop Evaristo Pascoal Spengler, the words of Heleno and the suspicions that Jair Bolsonaro had ordered espionage against the religious are a "setback" of the military regime's practices. The bishop of Marajó, from the Amazonian state of Pará, participated in the debates that preceded the October synod at the Vatican. "The Church is not neutral" Spengler is up two days after the general expressed his "concern" about the participation of priests and laypeople in bademblies where the situation in this region occupying 4 million square kilometers, is discussed only in Brazil

"The church is on the side of the weaker, the poorer, the edge of the river" unlike the "predatory" development model that exploits the riches of the forest. With this approach of Franciscan Spengler, the Catholic Church is at odds with the Amazon project designed by the government in alliance with multinational agribusiness and mining industry wanting to appropriate the resources of indigenous reserves. Conquering the green border, "farmers" are hiring badbadins to end the resistance of indigenous peoples and landless peasants to the usual pbadivity of the security forces. During his election campaign, Bolsonaro paid tribute to the murderers of 19 landless people in Eldorado dos Carajás, in the state of Pará, in 1996.

The Minister of Institutional Security, Augusto Heleno, has denied having ordered the follow-up of Catholic activists while repudiating the "interference" of the Church in the internal affairs of Brazil, which poses a threat to the sovereignty".

The Bishops' Conference of Brazil used a moderate tone to refute the thesis of one of the most powerful cabinet members, such as Heleno.

The Synod is an event "of the Church for the Church (and) involves the whole issue of Pan Amazonia, Peoples and the Environment," said Secretary General of the Conference, Leonardo Steiner,

Last week, a meeting began in Brasilia, where some of the proposals from the Panamazonian Ecclesial Network meetings were presented.

Francisco has appointed the former Archbishop of San Pablo Claudio Hummes, an old friend of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, head of the Network. The religious is the one who suggested to Jorge Bergoglio to adopt the name of Francisco shortly after being elected Pope to Cardinal Conclave of March 2013.

Last week, Hummes justified the "large number of meetings, meetings with indigenous peoples, with simple people from the deep Amazon", organized over the past four months for the meeting of Rome.

The reality will be addressed in the largest forest on the planet that covers nine countries, including Ecuador, Peru and Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela.

On the Amazon-Brazil border of 2,200 kilometers, the ecological disagreements between Francisco and Bolsonaro overlap political and geopolitical policies triggered by the crisis in the Caribbean country.

The pontiff believes that to solve the Venezuelan stalemate, the path taken is that of the opposite dialogue of the Brazilian president and former captain aligned with Donald Trump.

This week, a delegation of ministers from Bolsonaro was expected to arrive in the Amazon region, integrated by evangelical pastor Damares Alves, portfolio manager for Women, Family and Human Rights, who represents the neo-Pentecostal lobby, whose presence it's increased in the Amazon. in recent years, he has waged a silent holy war against Catholic militancy.