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Andrés Manuel López Obrador

President of Mexico from 2018 to 2024; in March 2019 he wrote to the King of Spain and the Pope asking for apologies.

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President of Mexico from 2018 to 2024; in March 2019 he wrote to the King of Spain and the Pope asking for apologies.

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Mexico asks Spain for an apology, 2019 Mar 2019 wrote the letters Scholarship & press 1

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Mexican president says Spain should ask forgiveness for crimes against indigenous Mexicans (Reuters, as published by NBC News, 26 March 2019), Reuters, via NBC News, 26 Mar 2019. Scholarship & press
I already sent a letter to the king of Spain and another letter to the Pope so that they ask forgiveness of indigenous peoples for violations of what are now known as human rights
Alberto Órfão, Felipe VI reconoce que hubo 'mucho abuso' durante la conquista de América ante el embajador de México, elDiario.es, 16 March 2026 (in Spanish), elDiario.es, 16 Mar 2026. Scholarship & press
desde que el expresidente mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador exigiera una petición de disculpa formal por parte del monarca
Guy Hedgecoe, Mexico's demand for conquest apology enrages Spaniards, The Irish Times, 26 March 2019, The Irish Times, 26 Mar 2019. Scholarship & press
an apology for the violations of what are now known as human rights – there were massacres, there was coercion, the so-called conquest was carried out with the sword and the cross.

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