00:00We now will retake the topic of the Pope's visit, the apostolic journey to
00:05Latin America. He's currently, as we have been reporting, is currently in Argentina
00:10and for that we're going to be speaking with Fabio Marcelli, Fabio Marcelli,
00:15international lawyer, who will help us understand more the importance of the
00:20Pope's visit here in Argentina.
00:42We're gonna be speaking in just moments with Fabio Marcelli, international lawyer.
00:47Fabio, I don't know if you can hear me. Can you hear me?
00:51Yes, I hear you. Do you hear me?
00:53I hear you fine. Fabio, thank you first of all for your time here with us.
00:58So my first question will be, the Holy See is a sovereign entity with a unique
01:03position in international law. How should we understand the diplomatic
01:07significance of Pope Leo XIV's visit to Argentina, particularly his meeting with President Javier Millet?
01:17The Pope Leo XIV is a very important one. First of all, because he returns in a sense to his
01:27roots.
01:28We know he spent a lot of time in Latin America and especially in Peru, so he knows very well
01:34the conditions, the aspirations of the needs and the needs of Latin American peoples.
01:41The second issue pertains to the very content of the teaching of this Pope, which is very attached to
01:53the principle of human dignity and is in a very staunch adversary of neoliberalism.
02:05Therefore, you can imagine the importance of his meeting with a person like President Millet,
02:14the one of the one of the most important prophets of neoliberalism, especially in Latin America,
02:23but we can say also at worldwide scale. So it will be very interesting to see how this meeting develops.
02:33will be very interesting to see how this meeting develops. We will assist to a clash between two extremely
02:40different, I will say, opposite vision of what society, either a society concerned with the rights of the
02:54peoples, this is of course the vision of the Pope, or a society which is concerned only with the interests
03:02of the big corporation. And this is the vision of Millet. I think in his presidency, Millet has shown
03:13better than everyone else, which are the concrete results of these doctrines applied to an economy like
03:26the Argentinian one, provoking very big damages. And therefore, the visit of the Pope can be another
03:35occasion of the Argentinian people and all of all people of Latin America to reassert their rights against
03:47neoliberalism, against the vision, which is the vision of President Pillay, of Trump and others.
03:55So you were referring to the topic of how the policies of Malay have impacted the Argentinian
04:00people and there have also been concerned about restrictions on demonstrations and the right to
04:04protest in Argentina. How do these developments measure against international human rights standards
04:09and what role can institutions such as the Catholic Church play in defending those rights?
04:15We know that one important feature of the Pope's doctrine is the attachment to international law. And of
04:30course, international human rights are a big part, a great part of international law today.
04:39Therefore, we expected that the Pope will say something very clear in face of every attempt to
04:51to violate human rights and especially the rights to the peaceful demonstration of peoples, which is now
05:03occurring everywhere in the world, especially in Europe and Latin America. So we expect we'll say something
05:10in this respect. Thank you, Fabio Marcelli for your time here with us in From the South.
05:21Well, we're speaking with Fabio Marcelli international jurist on some aspects of the importance
05:26that and symbolic symbolism that the Pope visits to Argentina and the Apostolic Journal in general to South America has.
