Great idea! And while they're at it, Mexico should apologize for the Aztecs. After all, the Aztecs subjugated and brutalized their lesser neighbors.
Posted on 03/28/2019 6:32:05 PM PDT by marshmallow
MEXICO CITY — President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday he has asked Spain and the Vatican to apologize for the conquest of the Americas five centuries ago.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he sent a letter to King Felipe VI of Spain and Pope Francis over what he called an “invasion” and the “many misdeeds that were committed.”
“There were killings, impositions,” the president said in a video that was filmed at Mayan ruins in the southeastern state of Tabasco and posted on social media. “The so-called conquest was carried out with the sword and the cross.”
He asked for an apology to “the original peoples for the violations of what are now known to be human rights.”
The Spanish government issued a statement later Monday regretting that the March 1 letter had been made public and rejecting its content “with all firmness.”
“The arrival, 500 years ago, of Spaniards to what is today Mexican territory cannot be judged in the light of contemporary considerations,” it continued. “Our sibling peoples have always known how to read our shared past without anger and with a constructive perspective, as free peoples with a common inheritance and an extraordinary projection.”
The statement reiterated the Spanish government’s willingness to work closely with Mexico to strengthen friendly and cooperative relations and tackle future challenges.
The exact text of the letter has not been made public.
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Like . . . why?
Do it PLEASE, if it will stop ALL THE WHINING once and for all and all future potential whining is stopped in its tracks.
“The exact text of the letter has not been made public.”
Besa mi culo I’m betting.
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El Presidente Obrador should apologize to the world for what Mexico is now.
I’m waiting for Mexico to apologize for this recent (decade long) invasion.
Portugal should sign the apology!
Great idea! And while they're at it, Mexico should apologize for the Aztecs. After all, the Aztecs subjugated and brutalized their lesser neighbors.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday he has asked Spain and the Vatican to apologize for the conquest of the Americas five centuries ago.
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The little wuss sounds like a fag, Jim.
No.
Go put some ice on it.
This crap has to end.
When has mexico apologizd for all the crap its done to every persons its harmed?
Enough of the carrying around of the faux butthurt of the losers.
Its in the past. Fuch off and die if you cant handle it.
Which reminds me of an old joke:
Why are Scandinavian women so beautiful?
Because the Vikings did not bring back the ugly ones.
So true. My ancestors were Vikings. We kicked everyones ass and we don’t apologize for it.
Maybe no Mexicans with Spanish ancestors should be allowed to be in high places in government or corporations.... only indigenous people.
Why.
The Conquistadors discovered a land with cultures that cut the hearts out children to appease “the gods”.
The “civilizations” Mexico, Central and South America were always warring at each other, exterminating whole villages in very barbaric ways.
The Conquistadors did what needed to be done for western civilization .
“Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he sent a letter to King Felipe VI of Spain and Pope Francis over what he called an “invasion” and the “many misdeeds that were committed.””
Sounds like a setup for Popie Frankie and Big Media to condescendingly tell us America is not facing an invasion.
No sale.
“President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday he has asked Spain and the Vatican to apologize for the conquest of the Americas five centuries ago.”
Oh, you’d rather have Aztecs cutting out gizzards? Says the the privileged Castilian prick.
The Aztecs not only sacrificed their neighbors, they ate the bodies. They were cannibals. The small number of Spanish were aided by hundreds of thousands of native people. Their neighbors were tired of their own being on the Aztec menu as tribute.
There are 62 indigenous languages that are still spoken today though many linguists assert that there are in fact over 100.
The United States lost 500,000 citizens in a civil war to maintain the integrity of the Union and free its slaves. We lost a 100,000 in the War to End All Wars. Another 250,000 in the second one that saw the liberation of Europe from fascism—but the descent of half of it into communism. Finally, the US lost 50,000 in a losing war to maintain South Vietnam’s independence.
My point: all that blood and treasure lost so entitled crybabies can whine about how oppressed they and the rest of the world are because of the United States. No matter what we do, it’s _never_ enough to close their yappers!
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