Mexico’s mistake is that they didn't take the example of blacks in America and should have demanded reparations...... ROTFLMFAO.....OH, and...
So instead of dealing with the Cartels (who are the real country's rulers, BTW) and fixing the country's problems so that thousands of their own people won't stream into this country, this is what AMLO chooses to focus on. An issue that no apologize or amount of money will rectify what occurred hundreds of years ago....and none offered!
And keep in mind, the Aztecs were ruthless killers who literally ate the heart out of their victims, engaged in pedophilia and slavery, and were so hated by the other tribes that the Spanish were welcomed by them.
Spain's government has refused a demand from Mexico's new president that it apologise for conquering the country five hundred years ago.
Firing the first shots in what threatens to become a diplomatic row, the Left-wing Mexican leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Monday that he had sent letters to Spain’s King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologize for crimes committed against the indigenous peoples of what is today Mexico.
“There were massacres and oppression. The so-called conquest was waged with the sword and the cross. They built their churches on top of the temples,” Mr López Obrador said in a video message.
He filmed the clip at a Mayan monument near the site of the first battle in which Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés fought indigenous people 500 years ago this month.
Starting from the Tabasco coast and assisted by some indigenous groups who threw in their lot with the invaders, Cortés led a squadron of soldiers eastwards to victory in Tenochtitlan - today’s Mexico City - two years later in 1521. The Aztec empire was destroyed and the indigenous populations were converted to Catholicism.
At a speech to supporters later on Monday, Mr López Obrador said he wanted to reconcile Mexico, the Spanish crown and the Vatican by “together reviewing the history of that military invasion and three centuries of colonisation”.Mr López Obrador said it was time to bury the Spanish interpretation of the events of 500 years ago as “a meeting of two cultures”, adding that “thousands of indigenous people were murdered”.
Hours after the Mexican leader’s message was posted on social media, the Spanish government issued a statement saying it “deeply regretted” that Mr López Obrador had made public the contents of the letter he had sent to Spain’s king
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So instead of dealing with the Cartels (who are the real country's rulers, BTW) and fixing the country's problems so that thousands of their own people won't stream into this country, this is what AMLO chooses to focus on. An issue that no apologize or amount of money will rectify what occurred hundreds of years ago....and none offered!
And keep in mind, the Aztecs were ruthless killers who literally ate the heart out of their victims, engaged in pedophilia and slavery, and were so hated by the other tribes that the Spanish were welcomed by them.
Spain's government has refused a demand from Mexico's new president that it apologise for conquering the country five hundred years ago.
Firing the first shots in what threatens to become a diplomatic row, the Left-wing Mexican leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Monday that he had sent letters to Spain’s King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologize for crimes committed against the indigenous peoples of what is today Mexico.
“There were massacres and oppression. The so-called conquest was waged with the sword and the cross. They built their churches on top of the temples,” Mr López Obrador said in a video message.
He filmed the clip at a Mayan monument near the site of the first battle in which Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés fought indigenous people 500 years ago this month.
Starting from the Tabasco coast and assisted by some indigenous groups who threw in their lot with the invaders, Cortés led a squadron of soldiers eastwards to victory in Tenochtitlan - today’s Mexico City - two years later in 1521. The Aztec empire was destroyed and the indigenous populations were converted to Catholicism.
At a speech to supporters later on Monday, Mr López Obrador said he wanted to reconcile Mexico, the Spanish crown and the Vatican by “together reviewing the history of that military invasion and three centuries of colonisation”.Mr López Obrador said it was time to bury the Spanish interpretation of the events of 500 years ago as “a meeting of two cultures”, adding that “thousands of indigenous people were murdered”.
Hours after the Mexican leader’s message was posted on social media, the Spanish government issued a statement saying it “deeply regretted” that Mr López Obrador had made public the contents of the letter he had sent to Spain’s king
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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