Peru Cardinal Attacks
President Chavez
Peruvian conservative
Cardinal Juan Luis
Cipriani joined a wave
of media and political
attacks against
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez, whom he
called "a bad mannered
prepotente" and said he
doesn't trust him.
The controversial
cardinal, a member of
the Catholic
conservative group Opus
Dei, lashed at Chavez's
criticism of Spanish ex
President Jose Maria
Aznar's meddling in
Venezuela.
Cipriani said Chavez is
not in condition to
become Peru's business
partner and called on
the government to be
cautious with Venezuelan
investments, but
President Alan Garcia
and Foreign Minister
Jose Garcia Belaunde
rejected the censure.
Critics of Cipriani
recall his silent
support as bishop of
Ayacucho during the
human rights violations
by the military in the
so-called dirty internal
war.
Such antecedents and
close ties to the
1990-2000 criticize
government of Alberto
Fujimori turned Cipriani
into the first cardinal
in history condemned by
Peruvian Catholics who
consider him undignified
for the office. |
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