Mexico’s government has offered an official apology to the Maya Indigenous people for the “terrible abuses” committed against them in the centuries since the Spanish conquest.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador presented the apology as part of a series of events this year marking the 500th anniversary of the conquest and the bicentennial of Mexico’s 1821 independence from Spain.
“We offer the most sincere apologies to the Maya people for the terrible abuses committed by individuals and national and foreign authorities in the conquest, during three centuries of colonial domination and two centuries of an independent Mexico,” Lopez Obrador said.
Lopez Obrador is fine and leading Mexico
Lopez Obrador is fine and leading Mexico
Mexico, Jan 25 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is feeling great and leading the country from his confinement due to a slight impact of Covid-19, Secretary of the Interior Olga Sanchez said on Monday. The official was appointed to lead the morning briefings at the National Palace, which the Mexican president has usually held every morning since he took office on December 1, 2018.
Olga Sanchez said that her appointment is solely and exclusively to direct the press conference and continue to meet the needs related to this circular and information dialogue, since the president is active in his executive function.