López Obrador: "Ask forgiveness to the indigenous peoples …

While the King of Spain and President Mauricio Macri launch flowers, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, launched what the newspaper El País called a "diplomatic challenge against Spain". The President sent a letter to Felipe VI in which he invited him to acknowledge the abuses committed during the conquest and to apologize for it. López Obrador says that excuses are the only way to achieve complete reconciliation between the two countries.

The Mexican president also sent a letter to the pope to have the Church do the same. "I sent a letter to the King of Spain and another letter to the pope to inform him of his grievances and apologize to the indigenous peoples for the violations of what is now called the human rights, there were threats and impositions.The so-called conquest was made with the sword and the cross, churches were built above the temples ", called AMLO at the foot of Maya pyramid, in the archaeological site Comalcalco. Lopez Obrador said he would also apologize on behalf of Mexico.

The request for apology was made with the idea of ​​achieving a "historic reconciliation" in 2021, the year in which Mexico will celebrate 200 years of independence. "The truth is that it was an invasion and many arbitrary actions were committed.It submitted itself to the peoples of the newly discovered continent.It was an invasion of the ancient inhabitants of this region, as the Mayans ", he said in a video posted on his Twitter account.

López Obrador asked for reconciliation but first asked "ask forgiveness". "I'll do it too," he said. "After the colony, there was a lot of repression of the indigenous peoples, which is unfortunate with the extermination of the Ya'qui, Maya and Chinese in the middle of the Mexican revolution," the president added. in a call.