One of the biggest questions about Pope Francis’ first ever visit to the United States will be whether — and how — he will respond to those who criticize his statements against unbridled capitalism and say that he has a soft spot for leftist dictators.
Francis is not only under fire from right-wing extremists, as was to be expected, but also from some highly respected economists. They question his July 9 speech in Santa Cruz de la Sierrra, Bolivia, in which he called for changing a capitalist system based on “profits at any cost, without thinking about social exclusion.” The pope added that “this system is no longer bearable. It’s not bearable by the peasants, it’s not bearable by the workers.”
The pope, 78, who has never visited the United States, is also being criticized for an alleged coziness with authoritarian leftist presidents across Latin America. “Pope Francis has a lot to say on the excesses of capitalism. What about Cuba and Venezuela?, ” asked a tweeter from The Economist magazine last week.
Ricardo Hausmann, a well-known international economist who heads Harvard University’s Center for International Development, took aim at the pope’s economic views in a recent article entitled, “Does capitalism cause poverty?”
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