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The Pope meets with indigenous peoples.
Maybe they should show this at Covington Catholic
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He saw it up close and personal ministering to the slums of Buenos Aires (where most inhabitants are indigenous, and immigrants from neighboring countries to boot).
More recently, he's been pushing back against the current, hard-right Argentine president, Mauricio Macri - whose made a policy of vilifying native peoples in Argentina as "terrorists."
Pope Francis and Argentine indigenous co-op leader Milagro Sala in happier days in 2014.
Imprisoned a month after Macri took office (three years ago), Sala's detention is considered arbitrary by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the IACHR, Pope Francis, and the UN.
She's the country's best-known political prisoner under the Macri regime - but by no means the only one.
