Orozco's 'The Franciscan'

Is this a positive image or a predatory image?

Some critics view this lithograph from around 1929 as a nurturing image where the Franciscan father embraces the emaciated Indian - Orozco was more sympathetic than most to the early colonial Catholic priests and their mission to the Indians. Others see a more sinister motive at work, almost vampiric, and consistent with Orozco's habitual cynicism about all beliefs and ideologies. Below is another much more sympathetic version, from 1926, in the Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City.