He is a man of the 1%, not a man of the masses. In Cuba, he is meeting with the elite, not the dissidents.
From MyWay/Associated Press:
Pope plans to duck dissidents in Cuba, spawning criticism
Pope Francis plans to meet with Cuba's president and its priests, its young and its sick, its churchgoers and its seminarians as he travels around the island starting Saturday. But not its dissidents.
The absence on Francis' agenda of any meeting with the political opposition has sparked bitter critiques from dissidents who say they feel let down by an institution they believe should help push for greater freedom in Cuba.
"He should exert more pressure," said Antonio Rodiles, head of the hardline group Estado de SATS. "In many cases political systems have come under international pressure that has resulted in change, and that's what needs to be happen with Cuba."
Such great hope and promise but he is just another Marxist/Communist - centralized power and knowing what is best for the 'proles' as they cannot deal with the "messy world" of capitalism without the help of their cultural elites.
Reminds me of the quote from Eric Hoffer a few days ago:
Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature.
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
And this story about the dismay at Obama's choices for the Guest List - crocodile tears most likely. Makes a lot of sense when you look at the larger picture.
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