Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (left) and The Conquest of Tenochtitlan © Reuters/Edgard Garrido, © Wikipedia
DW: Mexico asks Pope Francis and Spanish king to apologize for colonialism
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.
Spanish King Felipe VI and Pope Francis should apologize for the 16th-century conquest of Mexico, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday.
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.
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WNU Editor: Spain has already responded .... Spain hits back at Mexico in row over colonial rights abuses (The Guardian). More here .... Spanish politicians call Mexican president letter an 'offense' (Reuters). What's my take. 98 percent of Mexicans have some combination of indigenous, European and African ancestry. They are who they are because of what happened 500 years ago. So why is it important for Mexican President Manuel Lopez Obrador to bring it up now? Why the victim-hood? Are the people in Mexico resentful of who they are? Your guess on what is happening is as good as mine.
More News On Mexico's President Wanting Spain And The Pope To Apologize For Actions During The Conquest 500 Years Ago
Mexico president asks Spain, Pope to apologize for conquest -- FOX News/AP
Mexican president says Spain should ask forgiveness for crimes against indigenous Mexicans -- NBC
Mexico asks Spain to apologize for 'abuses' committed during colonialism -- The Hill
Mexican president asks Spain to apologize for actions during conquest -- Reuters
Mexican president demands apology from Spanish King, Pope Francis for 16th century conquests -- RT
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Meanwhile the Aztec sacrificial alters are running at full capacity...
This is one of the funnies about AOC. They demand reparations from the US, yet as a Cortez she might be related to Hernando Cortez the great Conquistador from Spain who slaughtered vast numbers of indigenous peoples such as the Aztec's. Hispanics like her ought to be paying reparations to their survivors.
Such stupidity from the reparations crowd in the USA.
How far back in time should humans apologize for human history?
Its filled with blood, sweat and tears of every human who ever lived.
Apologize for being human?
How the hell did we get to this point?
Madness.
11B19D
And they call Trump crazy! LOL!!!
This should come from some of the indigenous tribes that still exists in Mexico, not from a man with an obvious whirlpool of DNA.
The further back in history you go the murkier it gets on what happened and who did what and why.Demanding apologies for what happened x number of years ago is never about what really happened in the past its about the fact that some people currently feel like they haven't been given their proper lot in life.Why don't you hear France demand apologies from England about the 100 years war?Because they're both first world countries so it would be immediately silly for any person with a working brain to demand it.But there's this theory going around that the only reason certain peoples and countries are poor is because of what happened in the past the long ago past.This theory is full of holes beginning with the fact that counterfactual history is always 79% speculation but its become quite popular among the more 'hip' crowd.
What a world
So you grandfather has 2 sons.
One moves out of the neighborhood and rapes a woman. You are the product of that rape.
When you grow up you want to sue the son of your uncle (That is your cousin)for what your father did.
That is a what that dumb virtue signaling POS Obrador is doing.
"This should come from some of the indigenous tribes that still exists in Mexico, not from a man with an obvious whirlpool of DNA."
Yes.
Maybe in Chiapas they have some pure DNA. Maybe.
Maybe Obrador can apologize to some people from Chiapas.
Hans,
You will be sorely disappointed that there probably is no pure indigenous Mexicans.
"The social implications of the study are perhaps most surprising though. Typically, Mexican society is divided into two traditional groups. The mestizos (Mexicans of mixed, usually Native American and European, origin) and indigenous peoples. However, this study proved that while the social and economic division still separates these groups, biologically there are more similarities between them than once thought"
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/mexico/articles/mexicos-indigenous-groups-show-remarkable-genetic-diversity/
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