US EditionRecognizing Injustices Was “Important First Step”
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The recognition by the Spanish government of the injustices against the native peoples of our country during the Conquest and the Colony is a “important first step” and must be understood as a step forward in the “self-reflection in Spain,” said Alfonso Suárez del Real, Minister of the Office of Mexico before the Council of Europe.
Spain has acknowledged for the first time and expressed regret for the “pain and injustice” suffered by Mexico’s indigenous people during the conquest of the Americas, heralding a diplomatic shift after years of recriminations over colonial-era abuses. In March 2019, then-Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wrote to Spanish King Felipe VI and then-Pope Francis, urging them to apologize for the “massacres and oppression” during colonial…
Mexico demanded that the Spanish Crown and the Vatican apologize for the suffering caused by colonialism back in 2019. Spain has expressed regret for the “suffering and injustice” that Mexico’s indigenous peoples experienced as a result of the Spanish conquests. The apology follows a 2019 letter from then-Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to King Felipe VI of Spain and the late Pope Francis, in which Obrador called for an apology for…
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