"We'll see if I can go soon" | Francisco returned to h …

After the Argentine bishops anticipate a new effort to visit Pope Francis in Argentina, Jorge Bergoglio has himself taken the initiative to put order in any eventuality. "We'll see if I can go soon," he said in one of his clbadic dialogues with the plane. He was asked if he was planning to visit his native country, where he was last seen in 2013 with the Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Aires and primate cardinal of Argentina.

The brief and ambiguous statement of Jorge Bergoglio took place during a trip to Morocco, where he arrives for the first time as part of his official visits. And although this is not the first time the pope speaks on the subject, this time the answer has taken on special importance because of the announcement made a few days ago by some members of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA).

"At our next meeting with him, we will propose again that he does not deprive himself of the joy of visiting us," says the text that the authorities of the Argentine Catholic Church sent to Francisco March 13, after six years of his pontificate.

The meeting to which the Bishops referred will be held from April 28 to May 18, the duration of the first ad limina visit to the Vatican that the CEA will carry out to date in the Bergoglio papacy. During these days, "the bishops will make a pilgrimage to Rome, presenting a detailed report on the pastoral reality of each of the dioceses of the country," said the prelates.

Bergoglio's postponed visit to Argentina as supreme leader of the Catholic Church has always been the subject of various speculations, which have been linked since the beginning to the country's political climate and its famous position of condemning the country. neoliberalism, which constitutes the conceptual framework combined measures in the economic policy implemented by Mauricio Macri.

What makes us suppose that the "we will see if I can go soon" of the pope could not be this year, also has to do with the political situation in Argentina, since 2019 is an electoral year and that its arrival in the country could be used for political or political purposes. against one or the other side of the "crack".

The truth is that since March 13, 2013, when his name was announced from the balcony of the Vatican as a successor of Benedict XVI, Jorge Bergoglio did not return to his country. He did not set foot on Argentine soil when he was on the point of doing so several times, at least geographically.

The first time, it was in July 2013, when he went to Brazil as part of World Youth Day. The second took place in 2015, when he made a long tour in Bolivia and Paraguay. At that time, there was heavy speculation about a brief landing in Argentina, but the Alitalia plane took off to Ecuador, then to Cuba, during a historic visit .

Already in 2015, his return to Latin America was to go to Mexico. And shortly after, he returned to his homeland when he visited Chile, and instead of crossing the mountain range he returned to Rome.