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Mr Sarmiento said he hoped Francis' successor would maintain the Catholic Church's openness to diversity.

And his influences included writers who worked in that tradition: writers and essayists such as Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jorge Luis Borges and Euclides Da Cunha.

“Lucy Barriga created this program for women specifically,” observed Olga Lucía Sarmiento, a public health researcher and leading scholar of Ciclovía.

“That’s magical realism,” Sarmiento laughed.

Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento thought Chispa was an “unassembled group of young people” when he served on the Santa Ana City Council last decade.