Monsignor García Cuerva: “We have been accustomed for years to the rot of inflation, to taxes on the poor”

george garcia cuervaThe Archbishop of Buenos Aires was one of the main speakers at the tribute ceremony held in Luna Park this Sunday, May 12. father carlos mugicaMurdered on the doorstep of San Francisco Solano Parish in the Mataderos neighborhood on May 11, 1974.

Furthermore, renewing the church’s commitment to low-income areas, a statement sent by Pope Francis, who asked “that the rift end.”Not with silence and complicity, but by looking each other in the eyes, recognizing errors and eradicating exclusion.”

About this, Monsignor Garcia Cuerva Declared: “We do not want to keep looking at the past with nostalgia and sadness; nor with Vision is clouded by ideologies that lead us only to anachronistic discussions, Nor from eyes full of prejudices and preconceptions, or from biased and partial eyes that make us believe that we are the masters of truth and the measure of others’ predictions.

“It seems we have got used to it Our children and teens die from drugs every day And damn Paco that eats them up, as the silent epidemic of drug trafficking moves forward, which uses the poor as waste materialWhich promotes hitmen, who seduce members of the political, judicial and business worlds with blood-stained money,” the Archbishop of Buenos Aires highlighted.

The Archbishop of Buenos Aires lamented, “We are struggling between incompetence and hatred.” We bathe in the mud of corruption, We are accustomed to splashing in the mud of constant conflicts, while the poorest people continue to splash in the mud on the streets of their neighborhoods without asphalt and without urbanization planning because we are seeing the discontinuity of public policies for the integration of popular neighborhoods. This was achieved with the consent of governments and legislative representatives of various political groups.

Recalling Father Mugica, Jorge García Cuerva assures that “in many neighborhoods people continue to live among waste water due to not having sewers, with all the risks they pose to the health and quality of life of their inhabitants. But we have also become accustomed to it over the years bear the brunt of inflation Which is the poor man’s tax; alreadyWe get glimpses of leaders who become very rich very soon and working people who always become very poor., There’s been a bit of a bad smell in Argentina for a while now. Corruption, individualism, every man for himself, it stinks and we have almost become accustomed to living with those evils.”

In the sermon, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires emphasized: “We want to be close to the poorest like Father Carlos, because only the closeness that makes us friends allows us to deeply appreciate the values ​​of today’s poor, their legitimate desires and their own way of living by faith. We don’t want to play by ear; “Those who suffer are not the objects of our charity, but the heroes of their lives who are not hostages to anyone, who do not sell their rights and freedoms for a bag of food or an election promise.”

Finally, García Cuerva highlighted that “Carlos Mugica gave his life for the poor and the Gospel. They killed him because they knew his death would cause a lot of uproar., and they were betting on the anarchy that was looming like a storm over Argentina, which for years had become incapable of demanding peace and independence. “Fifty years later, we raise our voices to continue to demand peace and justice, convinced that violence is not the way forward.”