Maduro looks like a person "very convinced of his own"

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Madrid, March 31 (EFE) / photo: Ciro Fusco.- Pope Francis declared on Sunday that the mediation maintained by the Holy See in the Venezuelan crisis constituted a "bridge" that helped but was not resolved.

In an interview with the Spanish television channel La Sexta and broadcast Sunday night, the pope acknowledged that the Vatican had officially "negotiated" with the group created for this purpose, and that there was " Secretary of State's communications, after discreet, unofficial mediations, bridges that have helped a bit but it's not over to solve. "

Asked about his opinion on Nicolás Maduro, Francisco said that it was difficult to "get one" at the two meetings he had had with the Venezuelan president "before the situation became well. worse ", but in the forty minutes that preceded his half hour which lasted a second saw him" very convinced of his ".

At the same time, the one he held with Trump, a "person who has his plan and plan," was a "very formal and very brief visit," said Bergoglio, who added that if he were to choosing between having a coffee with Maduro or with the American president, he would do it "with both".

Regarding the exhumation of the remains of dictator Francisco Franco of the Valley of the Dead, promoted by the Spanish government, Pope Francis said that he had not participated in communications between the government and the Holy See in this regard, adding: "I do not have an opinion".

However, he defended "the right to the truth about what is happening, the right to a dignified burial, to find the corpses", a right that belongs to the family and society, because "a society can not smile future having their dead hidden ".

The pope devoted much of the interview to the drama of immigration, censoring "insensitivity or injustice" according to which a person who emigrates in search of a better life "will close the door".

And while countries such as Lebanon or Jordan host millions of refugees, "mother Europe has become too grandmother, she has aged all at once"; Although the most serious problem, in his opinion, is that he has already forgotten "when his children were knocking on the doors of America".

"But this is the most natural unconsciousness we've got used to that, the world has forgotten to cry, it's the most inhuman thing, and it shows how much the inhumanity of a person can go down, "he censured with one of these blades in his hand.

Bergoglio emphasized that fear-based anti-immigration rhetoric is "a repeating story" because it is this feeling "that is the material on which dictatorships are built".

Moreover, the pontiff said that he felt "sorry" because Spain had sold arms to Saudi Arabia, although "this is not the only government".

"They do not have the right to talk about peace, they foment the war in another country and they want peace in their own country", but it's like "the boomerang theory", warned .

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