José Comblin, one of the creators of the Theology of Liberation , said that the election of John Paul II and Benedict XVIwas managed by Opus Dei "practicing blackmail, bullying the Cardinals," and that in Latin America the Pope "is more divine than God. " Comblin, Belgian who lives in Brazil and just visit Chile , a country in which he was exiled in 1972, during the government of Popular Unity , explained that the liberation theologians today have more than 80 years and "did not show a new generation" to give continuity to this thought.