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After successive condemnations by the international community for human rights violations. The pressure from the US due to the assassination in Washington of Orlando Letelier became unbearable. The discovery of remains of peasants clandestinely buried in a lime mine in Lonquén refuted the official theory that denied the existence of missing people. And General Gustavo Leigh, who had been increasingly critical of Pinochet and his political and economic plans, ended up losing the connection he had with Pinochet and was expelled from the Junta. This had the consequence that Pinochet strengthened his position, concentrating all the power in his person, something that did not happen in Argentina, with Videla having to deal with the rest of the Junta and with some Armed Forces. divided between “soft” and “hard”. Kill Pinochet VATICAN MEDIATION The last diplomatic effort to avoid war was made by Chile.
On December 12, Foreign Minister Hernán Cubillos traveled to Buenos Aires to meet with his Argentine counterpart, Washington Pastor. Both reached an agreement to request papal mediation, but hours later the agreement was Phone Number Database unknown by the Argentine Junta. Immediately after this meeting there was a meeting of the Argentine military leadership in the Cóndor building, with the absence of Videla and the chancellor, where the date and time was set for the war: December 22 at 10:00 p.m. For ten the logic of war prevailed, but the toughest sector of the Argentine military ended up accepting papal mediation. Antonio_Samoré_Argentina_1978 Antonio Samoré. The role of the Church of both countries and the Vatican was decisive. John Paul II had arrived at the papacy in August 1978. The nuncio in Buenos Aires, Pío Laghi, immediately informed him of the war plans of the Argentine military.
John Paul II would secretly receive Cardinal Raúl Primatesta, president of the Episcopal Conference, who told him that Videla was only willing to stop the war if the pope intervened personally. Before, when John Paul I assumed the papacy, who died on September 28 of that year after less than a month in office, the Chilean cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez also asked him for mediation. In the ceremony in which all the cardinals greeted the new pope, the Chilean knelt for a long time, kissing his ring, and asking for his intervention. John Paul I even sent a letter to the two governments asking for peace. After managing to stop the war machine, the pope sent Cardinal Antonio Samoré to mediate the agreement. The Italian would have a tough job ahead of him.
On December 12, Foreign Minister Hernán Cubillos traveled to Buenos Aires to meet with his Argentine counterpart, Washington Pastor. Both reached an agreement to request papal mediation, but hours later the agreement was Phone Number Database unknown by the Argentine Junta. Immediately after this meeting there was a meeting of the Argentine military leadership in the Cóndor building, with the absence of Videla and the chancellor, where the date and time was set for the war: December 22 at 10:00 p.m. For ten the logic of war prevailed, but the toughest sector of the Argentine military ended up accepting papal mediation. Antonio_Samoré_Argentina_1978 Antonio Samoré. The role of the Church of both countries and the Vatican was decisive. John Paul II had arrived at the papacy in August 1978. The nuncio in Buenos Aires, Pío Laghi, immediately informed him of the war plans of the Argentine military.
John Paul II would secretly receive Cardinal Raúl Primatesta, president of the Episcopal Conference, who told him that Videla was only willing to stop the war if the pope intervened personally. Before, when John Paul I assumed the papacy, who died on September 28 of that year after less than a month in office, the Chilean cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez also asked him for mediation. In the ceremony in which all the cardinals greeted the new pope, the Chilean knelt for a long time, kissing his ring, and asking for his intervention. John Paul I even sent a letter to the two governments asking for peace. After managing to stop the war machine, the pope sent Cardinal Antonio Samoré to mediate the agreement. The Italian would have a tough job ahead of him.