The Guadalajara Reporter

Pope Francis dogged by polemic ties to military junta

Jorge Bergoglio, who became the first Latin American Pope on Wednesday, has long faced accusations of collaborating with the military junta that ruled Argentina with an iron fist from 1976 to 1983.

In 2011, the French justice system sent a warrant to the Argentine authorities requesting that Bergoglio testify at an investigation into the case of French priests Gabriel Longueville and Carlos Murias, who were kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Argentina in 1976.

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