Pope Francis criticized the high rates of poverty and inflation that affect Argentina and attributed them to "bad administration and bad policies."
In an interview with the Associated Press news agency, he also considered that the increase in prices in the country is "impressive."
"Argentina right now, and I don't do politics, I read the data, it has an impressive level of inflation," Francisco emphasized in an interview in which he also stated that homosexuality "is not a crime."
And he added: "In the year 55, when I finished my secondary school, the poverty level was 5%, today poverty is at 52%. What happened? Bad administration, bad policies."
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