“No, because it is a priest,” said several witnesses who said a group of police officers who were intervening in repression against protesters who protested in the vicinity of Congress. Grabbed and thrown on the floor by an officer, with a Boca Juniors shirt, the father Paco Oliverabelonging to the group of Cures in option for the poorhe was being arrested for interceded in another detention.
After several seconds of tension, the agents decided to release it. In this way, the priest exposed the wild police action that was carried out in the middle of the Buenos Aires center. “It’s a shame, a true dictatorship. Today, if I were a policeman, I would have to give up and look for another work, because it cannot be that all they do is hit people, ”Olivera told the NA agency.
In his parish of Merlo, in the Buenos Aires Conurbano, there is the basis of Father Francisco “Paco” Olivera. In the Libertad neighborhood, one of the most deprived areas of AMBA, the Catholic religious manages a community dining room and, their collaborators, offer cultural classes and family containment in the community space “Teresa Parodi”. A solidarity place of reference, for a whole community that is unprotected, located in the west zone.
In May last year, in the Homeland Institutethe priest was one of the priests who joined the public reappearance of the former president Cristina Kirchner in the enthronement of the Virgin of Lujan. And it was his controversial statements that placed him fully in the political arena. “How he won the option that says that ‘where there is a need, there is no right’, I want Maciel Island Foundation. Nor do they ask us anything, ”said Father Oliveira in his X account.
In the presidential elections, Olivera made public his overwhelming support for Sergio Massa and Union for the Homeland. “At 40 years of democracy you cannot be undecided in the elections. Today anyone has to vote for Sergio Massa, ”the parish priest told various media and concluded:” I cannot believe that 30% of the population supports a candidate who has delusional proposals. We don’t have to be warm, let’s bet on the common good and vote for Massa. ”
The journalist Luis Gasulla said that, in 2021, the pastor received $ 1,119,950 of the Produce program that fought gender violence. And, the following year, he added $ 1,469,116 by the Community Accompanying Centers, all programs dependent on the Ministry of Social Development of the Nation the government of Alberto Fernández.
During the macrismo, Olivera was promoted by the deceased HEBE OF BONAFINI, former head of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. At that time, the religious, in the south of Greater Buenos Aires, armed the Maciel Island Foundation to receive public funds, subsidies and international donations in foreign currency tickets.
According to Gasulla, the entity was the seal that enabled the militant cure “to lower public funds” without accounts to the Argentine Catholic Church. The priest recognized as Father Paco was set apart from the Diocese of Avellaneda in 2019 by the bishop Rubén Oscar Frassia, that withdrew it from ministerial licenses for positions in favor of abortion.
“This government has blood stained hands, is playing with the food of our people, with hunger,” criticized the ecclesiastical to the libertarian government in his latest public statements.
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