US EditionSpain Admits 'Suffering' Caused by Conquest of Mexico
Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares recognized historic injustices to Indigenous peoples during the conquest following Mexico’s renewed calls for an official apology.
- On Friday, Spain's Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares acknowledged `There has also been pain- pain and injustice toward Indigenous peoples` at the opening of an exhibition of Indigenous Mexican art in Madrid.
- Sheinbaum's revival follows a 2019 letter to Madrid by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which Spain's foreign ministry rejected, straining relations earlier this week.
- When Hernán Cortés arrived in 1519, estimates place Mesoamerica's population between 15 million and 30 million, but after a century of conflict, only one million to two million Indigenous inhabitants remained.
- Top Spanish officials described the remarks as unusually clear admissions, while Spain's King Felipe VI did not comment publicly and the Spanish government defended the nations' "shared history".
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Spain's Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has acknowledged in a speech the "pain and injustice" the country caused to indigenous people in Mexico during colonial rule in the Americas. The statement comes after Mexico made new demands for an official apology.
Spain admits ‘suffering’ caused by conquest of Mexico
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares on Friday officially acknowledged the “suffering and injustice” that ‘s conquistadors meted out to ‘s indigenous people some five centuries ago. “There was injustice, and it is merely right and fair to acknowledge and deplore this. It is part of our joint history. We can neither deny it nor forget it,” Albares said on opening an exhibition of indigenous Mexican art in Madrid. The exhibition was organi…
Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has acknowledged and addressed the suffering and injustice inflicted on indigenous peoples during Spanish rule in the Americas. It's the first time this has happened, but a formal apology has not yet been issued.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, described as a “first step” the recognition of Spanish Chancellor José Manuel Albares on abuses committed during the colonial period.
The Spanish government has admitted for the first time that indigenous peoples of Mexico were "suffering and wrong" about 500 years ago by Spanish conquerors.
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