14 DAY TRIAL // Former vice-president during the time of Hugo Chavez and acting Venezuelan interim president Nicolas Maduro claims Chavez had his hand in electing a South American Pope.
As I previously reported, the new pope Francis I is Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first non-European pope in exactly 1272 years, according to the Telegraph.
Huffpost details that Maduro appeared in an interview on national TV on Wednesday, joking about the godly decision on the new pope being nudged in South America's way by late Chavez, who has surely made friends with Jesus by now.
"I don't know, we know that our 'commander' rose to the heights and is face to face with Christ. He must've influenced somehow to convene a South American Pope. Some new hand arrived and Christ said, 'Well, it is the time for South America,'" Maduro describes.
He goes on to say that, if Chavez gets his way, the institution of the church will not be in place for much longer, and it will be the masses ruling the world.