Alberto Methol Ferré was introduced by then Archbishop of Buenos Aires and later pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Bergoglio adhered to his idea of "libertine atheism". He died in Montevideo in 2009. According to one author, he was an influence in the thought of Pope Francis. Alberto Methol Ferré Alberto René Methol Ferré (Montevideo, 31 March 1929 – 15 November 2009) was a Uruguayan thinker, writer, journalist, teacher, historian and theologian. He has been described as one of Latin America's most fertile and original thinkers. Alberto Methol Ferré was born in Montevideo in 1929. He first studied in the Liceo Francés de Montevideo and
Republicanism in the Netherlands founded the New Republican Society ("Nieuw Republikeins Genootschap", NRG) in 1998. Members of the NRG do organise actions against the monarchy. However, both groups are currently relatively marginal in Dutch society: the RG does have many prominent members, but not a large following; the NRG had about 2000 members in April 2013. When it became public in 1999 that Crown Prince Willem-Alexander was in relationship with Máxima Zorreguieta, the royal house came under fire, mainly because Máxima's father Jorge Zorreguieta had been Secretary of State in the repressive Argentinian military regime of Jorge Videla during the Dirty War (1976–1981). Even