City of VATICAN.- A little over a week after the conclave starts with the choice of the new Dad, After the death of Francisco, on April 21, it is expected that 23 of the 133 Cardinals that can participate in the choice, are from countries of Latin America.
Brazil and Argentina have the greatest representation of prelates, according to reports from the Vatican.
The region represents 17% of the voters in the conclave, and has more votes than Africa, it ensures, confirming the potential influence of Latin America in the election of who will assume the papacy left by Francisco.
The Cardenalicio College is made up of 252 cardinals, of which 135 can vote for the new Pontiff because they are under 80 years of age, as required by Vatican standards.
However, two of them will not attend the conclave for health reasons, so 133 will participate recently.
A candidate, among the postulated cardinals, will require only 89 votes to be proclaimed as the new leader of the Catholic Church.
This Friday, the Pope Francis It remains in the burning chapel, in the Basilica of San Pedro until hours of the afternoon when its coffin is planned, in the presence of presidents, heads of state and high personalities of the world who attend the funeral to give him the last goodbye, along with hundreds of thousands of parishioners.
Cardinals of Latin America
The list of the 23 Latin American cardinals was posted in a note of an official medium of the Catholic Church, in which it is specified that three of the sloping were created by Benedict XVI and participated in the conclave that chose Pope Francis.
The cardinals from 13 countries in the region are:
*By Brazil: Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, 75 years old; Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, 77, Cardinal Orani João Tempesta, 74 years; Cardinal Jaime Spengler, 64; Cardinal Sergio Da Rocha, 65 years; Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, 74 years old; and Cardinal Paulo Cezar Costa, 57 years old.
*By Argentina: Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli, 77 years old; Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, 62; Cardinal Vicente Bokalic Iglic, 72 years; and Cardinal Ángel Sixto Rossi, 66 years.
*By Mexico: Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, 76; Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, 75 years.
Countries with a single prelate
*By Colombia: Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio, 63 years.
*By Cuba: Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez, 76 years old
*By Chile: Cardinal Fernando Chomali Garib, 68 years old.
*By Ecuador: Cardinal Luis Cabrera Herrera, 69.
*By Guatemala: Cardinal Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imei, 77 years.
*By Haiti: Cardinal Chibly Langlois, 66.
*By Nicaragua: Cardinal Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano, 76 years old
*By Paraguay: Cardinal Adalberto Martínez Flores, 73 years old
*By Peru: Cardinal Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio, 75 years.
*By Uruguay: Cardinal Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, 65 years
