Andrés Manuel López Obrador has opened up a diplomatic row with Spain over the centuries-old conquest of Mexico.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. By Kevin Sieff Kevin Sieff Latin America Correspondent Email Bio Follow March 26 at 2:41 PM MEXICO CITY — Five hundred years after the Spanish conquest of modern-day Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has a demand for the Spanish government: Apologize.
Spanish politicians swiftly attacked López Obrador, claiming he was unfairly holding Spain’s current government responsible for the sins of the empire. Antonio Miguel Carmona, leader of the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, told Mexico’s El Universal that the comments were, “a very serious error that denotes a deep ignorance. You can not judge the events of 500 years ago through the prism of 2019.
About 100,000 Aztecs died in Tenochtitlan alone. Many others died of small pox, which the Spanish brought with them to Mexico. The massacres of the conquest are no secret in modern Mexico; they are documented in — among other places — the Diego Rivera murals that cover the National Palace in Mexico City.In the subsequent centuries, the Mexico-Spain relationship bloomed. After the Spanish Civil War, thousands of Spanish citizens fled their nation to Mexico by boat.
Still, his demand for an apology appears to have caught the Spanish by surprise, coming as López Obrador appeared to be moderating, refusing to criticize even President Trump, whom he once railed against publicly. Then came the letter and Monday’s video.
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