Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words participant in the conclave said that Bergoglio had received 40 votes in the third ballot. Bergoglio first resisted the idea of a book about him, but gave in to their continued requests. Rubin and Ambrogetti met with him monthly for a year and half. Those meetings were the only occasions when Bergoglio discussed his life during Argentina's Dirty War. The book was published in 2010. It was reprinted in 2013, a updated reflection of the increased interest on Bergoglio after his election as Pope. Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words Pope Francis: Conversations with
Esther Ballestrino In 1976 two of her sons, Manuel Carlos Cuevas and Ives Domergue, were kidnapped and they disappeared. Ballestrino was credited with helping found the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo which came out of other mothers of missing children who met at the Plaza de Mayo. The next year, her pregnant daughter Ana Maria Careaga was also abducted in December 1977 by the authorities and tortured. Ballestrino contacted her associate, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and asked that he come to give the last rites to a relative. The Catholic Bergoglio was surprised, as he knew that Ballestrino was a Marxist. When