Former presidents criticize the Vatican in response to regional crises

Twenty former governors attached to the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) criticized the attitude of the Vatican and the new Spanish government to "atrocities" committed by governments dictatorships "in Nicaragua and Venezuela. 19659002] In the statement – signed, among others, by the former Spanish President Jos Mara Aznar and the Chilean Eduardo Frei-IDEA denounced "serious, systematic and widespread violations of human rights."

Although the signatories support the Bishops' Conferences of Nicaragua and Venezuela, they express their "concern for the silence, the jealous prudence or the behavior of certain fundamental actors of the world opinion, such as the" ". Vatican State. and now the government of Spain, before the atrocities that are happening now in Latin America in the hands of overtly dictatorial governments. "In recent weeks, the Vatican and Spain have resorted to dialogue in Nicaragua to find a solution to the crisis