Mexico apologizes to indigenous Maya for centuries of abuse 04 May 2021 / 08:40 H. Handout picture released by the Mexican Presidency showing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (R), his Guatemalan counterpart Alejandro Giammattei (C) and his Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero (L) during the Appeal for Forgiveness for Grievances to the Mayan People ceremony, in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo State, Mexico, on May 3, 2021. -AFP PHOTO / MEXICO’S PRESIDENCY
MEXICO CITY: Mexico s government offered an official apology on Monday to the indigenous Maya 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 Mexican independence.
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.