Argentine bishops’ pastoral team rebukes president on country’s origins catholicnews.com

The Argentine bishops’ pastoral team for aboriginal peoples rebuked comments from the country’s president that perpetuated the viewpoint that the population predominantly arrived “on ships” from Europe.

President Alberto Fernández, appearing June 9 with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, repeated the line of an old song — which he erroneously attributed to Mexican writer Octavio Paz — “Mexicans came from the Indians, Brazilians from the jungle and we Argentines on ships … from Europe.”…

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