Marxist leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Colombia all provided a statement on Monday honoring the legacy of the late Pope Francis, accepting him as a friend of their cause.
The most vocal accolades came from Cuba. I was kidding If Pope Francis “kept it up,” he returned to the Catholic Church. Fisherhead President Miguel Diaz Cannell likewise praised Pope Francis as “unforgettable” and believed that he had made Cuba a priority for his service as the church president.
The Vatican announced the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88 on Monday shortly after making a surprising appearance during Sunday’s Easter service. The Pope was hospitalized for most of February and March, enduring severe respiratory illnesses that he had been in the process of recovery at home when he passed.
Pope Francis served as head of the Roman Catholic Church since 2013, being the first Latin American Pope and first became a member of the Jesuit Order. His death prompted a message of lament and congratulations on his work in churches from heads of states around the world, including non-Christian leaders such as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ukrainian President Volodimia Zernsky and Muslim Turkish strongman Receptacle Tayyip Erdogan.
In Latin America, the region’s most oppressive nation leaders remembered as the “pope of the people” whom Pope Francis tried to reconcile the free world and their brutal regime.
“Rest in peace, dear friend,” wrote Mass Murderer Raul Castro. statement issue Grandmathe official Cuban Communist Party newspaper.
People pass the portrait of the late Pope Francis at the Church of Calidad Delkoble in Havana on April 21, 2025 (Yamil Reige/AFP via Getty Images)
“You were a person of integrity and consistency, and you went back and forth with love and fortune to the relationships we fake,” Castro continued. “I love the memories of the conferences we held and am very grateful for my love for the Cuban people and for my personal contributions to establishing the dialogue and understanding of the brothers in the relationship between Cuba and Saint Sea.”
The communist coup that seized power in Cuba in 1959 relied heavily on eradicating Catholic influences in the country through the use of layoff squads to kill abuses of priests and large exiles and nuns, as well as the closure of church and Catholic schools. The story of Cuban regime agents drags them into the country’s infamous, violent prisons to publicly beat priests and express compassion for peaceful anti-communist opponents.
Violence against the local Catholic Church did not stop Pope Francis from using the Vatican as a mediator to encourage more communist violence against the Cuban people by eliminating sanctions and enriching the regime. President Barack Obama, who led efforts to enrich the administration during his tenure, praised Pope Francis in 2014 for encouraging the Cuban Communist Party.
“His sacred Pope Francis has made a personal appeal to me and to Cuban President Raul Castro,” Obama said at the time that the contract would exchange the freedoms of the rest of the Cuban Five members and the freedoms of America’s Alan Gross, the spy ring responsible for the murder of four Americans in the Cuban administration.
Grandma explained Pope Francis said that he was in office as “one of the greatest moves to bring the Catholic Church and the nation closer on the basis of a relationship of respect and mutual sensibility,” and that Pope Francis visited the island nation in 2015.
“During his stay in the Great Antilles, he met with Fidel. [Castro] Who was a personal visit, but the growing symbolic content marked a key moment of the Pope’s visit to Cuba. Grandma recall.
The visit was characterized by oppression that is distinctive in aspects of the Cuban regime, preventing democratic opposition from being allowed time with the Pope. One such activist, identified as Zaqueobaes, was able to approach the Pope’s convoy at one of the events of the visit. Baes cried out the word “freedom” near the Pope, resulting in cruelty for the administration’s agents. Heartbeat He drove him to prison before the Pope. The incident got caught up in video.
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“There is no news that detention has happened. There is no news,” said the Pope. I said On a flight from Cuba, when asked about his arrest and police brutality during his visit. Pope Francis did not meet democratic opposition during his visit and refused to condemn Cuba’s deplomatic human rights records, telling reporters:
Like Castro, Diaz Cannell issued a statement describing Pope Francis’ “deep lament” of his death.
“The display of affection and proximity he passed on to our fellow nations was always being reciprocated by the Cubans,” writes Castro’s Underling. “We recall his loving visit to Cuba and his words of affection that he dedicated to our country in his message.”
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“Today, he left us with an immeasurable legacy. I said. “We are all of us who walk with humble men and envision the labour of the promotion of Pope Francis, who defended the persecuted immigrants and the poor on this planet.”
“His Pope was an ethical guide who encouraged him to walk with the most vulnerable and struggle for social justice,” Maduro added. “We had a pope of people who were truly representative of the legacy of Christ, the Savior.”
Maduro also recalled that Pope Francis was the main side of the canoeing of the first Pope of Venezuela, Jose Gregorio Hernandez.
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The Pope granted Several audiences to Maduro in the Vatican tried to mediate between Maduro’s violent socialist regime and the broken Venezuelan opposition.
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In Nicaragua, the country where the communist regime declared a war with Catholicism, dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo issued a statement honoring Pope Francis, who recognized the “difference” from the church.
“Our relationship was a difficult and fraudulent influenced by a disadvantageous situation, as a devout, devout and faithful Nicaraguan follower of the doctrine of Jesus Christ,” the authoritarian couple said. I wrote it. “We praise him [Pope Francis’s] Travel around the world with the intention of promoting peace and building a church committed to the duty and responsibility of creating Concord through essential Christian solidarity and brotherhood. ”
In Colombia, radical Marxist President Gustavo Peter, who began his political career as a member of a terrorist organization, lamented the death of Pope Francis as a personal friend.
“A great friend came out of me. I feel somewhat alone,” Peter wrote in one of his signature messages on Twitter.
“He fully understood his role as a spiritual leader in the great struggle for life,” Peter continued. “On the greedy cause of extinction. His cyclical scholars will go down in history if we can build a humanity that protects its greatest good: life.”
Vatican City will hold Pope Francis’ funeral on Saturday to honor his memory.
