In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, the renowned Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto said that both Pope Francis and Donald Trump suffer from an excessively Eurocentric worldview, leading them to see solutions to social ills in terms of walls and bridges, when what is really needed is a “paradigm change.

”Although he is favorable to social bridge-building and sympathetic to a need for walls, de Soto told Breitbart News that “you cannot continue trying to build Eurocentric horizontal bridges from left to right when it is obvious that our 2nd– and 3rd-world problems require vertical ladders from the bottom to the top.”

“So there they are moving in droves to the cities and the North,” de Soto said, referring to the global migration crisis. “And there are the leaders of the West fighting over walls and bridges, when all we need are ladders.”

Last week, de Soto wrote a sort of “open letter” to Pope Francis, suggesting that the pontiff challenge Donald Trump to take up the cause of property rights worldwide, since the lack of enforced “property borders” holds a majority of the world population back in economic stagnation.

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