Mexico’s President says that Spain and Vatican should apologies for 16th century ‘Mexico’s conquest’

Mexican President Manuel Lopez Obrador told the Spanish king and the Vatican that “wounds are still open” from the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521. The Spanish government was not amused.

DW reports that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday that the Spanish King Felipe VI and Pope Francis should apologise for the 16th-century conquest of Mexico,

The report says “the populist leftist Mexican president has sought to cast himself as a champion of Mexico’s indigenous peoples and until now, he had cultivated cordial relations with both Spain and the Vatican.”

Spain said it “firmly regrets” that Obrador’s letter to the king had been made public and dismissed judging Spain’s colonial actions in Mexico “in the light of contemporary considerations.”

Via DW