It is these countries that have apologized to other nations for the crimes of the past

"I have already sent a letter to the King of Spain and another to the Pope, so that report on grievances and apologize to Aboriginal peoples for violations of what is now called human rights. There were mbadacres, impositions, "explained López Obrador in a video

In response, the Spanish Government deeply regretted that the letter sent by the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to the King Felipe VI March 1st; also rejected "with all the firmness" give the excuses.

In a note sent to the news agency Efe, the government considers that "the arrival, five hundred years ago, of the Spaniards on current Mexican lands can not be judged in the light of contemporary considerations"

Add this "our fraternal peoples have always been able to read our common past without anger and with a constructive perspectiveas free peoples with a common heritage and extraordinary projection ".

But this is not the only case of governments apologizing, other governments risked asking for forgiveness from the institutions that hurt their peoplen and here we tell you a few cases.

1.- Canada also apologized to Pope Francis
The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeauasked in 2017 for dad Francisco apologies to the children of indigenous peoples that at the end of the 19th century, they were interned in "Residential" to strip them of their traditional culture and their ancestral languages.

"I told him how important it was for Canadians to go forward in real reconciliation with aboriginal peoples and I insisted that he could help by apologizing, "Trudeau explained.

2.- Canada apologizes to the Jews
The Prime Minister Canadian apologized for the Jewish Community because in 1939 Canada rejected a ship with 907 Jews who were considered "unworthy" to have a house, during the Second World War.

3.-Japan for the colonial occupation in South Korea
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that "deep remorse" for the damage done to the South Korean people in 1910 and 1945, when the Japanese country occupies the Korean peninsula.

"The peoples of South Korea have been deprived of their nation and culture, and their ethnic pride has been deeply damaged by a colonial mandate this went against their will, "reads the statement approved by the Japanese government.

The Japanese government's recognition aims to strengthen ties with its neighbor, which is why He promised to return pieces of Korean cultural heritage taken during colonization.

May 4 in the Caribbean countries
Last year, the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, apologized to 12 Caribbean leaders at Commonwealth summit in London, for the treatment that their citizens have received United Kingdom after the Second World War.

The one known as the Windrush generation is the one that arrived in the British country between 1948 and 1971 from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and has not yet obtained its residence permit.

5.-Macron excused for enforced disappearances in Algeria
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, apologized for torture and enforced disappearances they committed during the war in Algeria, when they obtained their independence from the French country between 1954 and 1962.

6.-Spain is excused from the Sephardic community
In October 2015, the government of Mariano Rajoy he apologized to the Sephardic community because they expelled it in 1492 from their territory because they wanted to convert to the Catholic religion.

As a reward, the Spanish administration offered them access to Spanish nationality.

7.-Pope Francis has already apologized to indigenous peoples
In a speech to popular movements in Bolivia in 2015, the The Argentine pontiff asked "humbly sorry" for "crimes against native peoples during the so-called conquest of America".

That year, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, denounced colonialism, so that Pope Francis decided to apologize to the people of origin.