The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumstated this Wednesday that the relationship with Spain is “good.” Even so, he has asked the country to “rethink” after the controversy over not inviting king Philip VI to his investiture for not answering his predecessor’s letter, Andrés Manuel López Obradorabout the abuses of the conquest. “It’s good, it doesn’t have to change, but we will always defend the position and with Spain we have commercial, tourism, tourist and cultural relations,” he declared in his first morning conference.
The president has insisted that the Spanish Crown must reflect on the letter that the then president López Obrador sent to Felipe VI in March 2019 to apologize to the indigenous peoples for the colony’s abuses. “Mexico and Spain are united in a very important way by the exile that occurred from the Republic, there are many Spaniards who live in Mexico from that time and others too, But we believe, first, that you have to reconsider.”he has stated.
To support Mexico’s request, the president has pointed out that the governor of California, Gavin Newson, offered an official apology in recent days for the role of that entity of USA on slavery and racial disparities. “And the countries of Europe have made public apologies, he Vatican He made a public apology, so it is important to continue maintaining this position and we are going to maintain it,” he stated.
The Mexican leader has also considered it “important” to return to the issue of Spain because she will implement the constitutional reform of indigenous peoples and Afro-Mexicans that López Obrador promulgated on Monday on his last day as head of state. The initiative recognizes for the first time the almost 70 indigenous peoples as subjects of public law with legal personality and their own assets, requires consultations on projects that affect their communities and declares Mexico, where 23 million people are, a “multiethnic nation.” indigenous.
The president, at the same time, has defended her position before Felipe VI for the lack of response to López Obrador’s letter and for a “tremendous campaign against Mexico” that, according to her, was unleashed in Spain after the episode. “What is happening? The king does not answer the letter, not even in the most basic aspects of a bilateral diplomatic relationship as head of state to head of state, which was a private letter, which It had to be answered like a private lettereven if I had not agreed,” he said.
