Alicia Castro, who is a close political ally of President Cristina Kirchner, told Argentina's Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Mr Cameron had been ill advised in mentioning Pope Francis's thoughts on the Falklands.
"We had the extraordinary good fortune to have an Argentinian pope, and one who supports our claim to the islands," she said. Pope Francis, known as Jorge Bergoglio when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, said in 2012 that the islands had been "usurped" by Britain.
"When the pope was named I asked one of our people to look into what Bergoglio had said regarding the Malvinas," she said, referring to the Falklands by their Spanish name. "Cameron did the same and was stupid enough to disseminate the information."
Mr Cameron, she said, was an "inefficient" politician for addressing the Falklands question in this way. » | Harriet Alexander | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
