y’all may not know there was a time #PopeFrancis wanted to be a biologist. it was during his youth years working as an assistant at a laboratory that he met Esther Ballesteros, the woman who he ended up looking up to as mentor.

he looked up to Ballestero not only thru those formative years but later on as a priest & bishop, after she co-founded Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo and she herself was tortured, disappeared and murdered as part of USA’s #OperationCondor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

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