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.”In this Friday, March 8, 2019 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador answers questions from journalists at his daily 7 a.m. press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. Lopez Obrador said he sent a letter to Spain and the Vatican on March 1, asking them to apologize for the conquest of the Americas five centuries ago. ( Marco Ugarte, File / AP Photo )“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. Lopez Obrador called for 2021 — the 500-year anniversary of the conquest of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire on what is today Mexico City — to be a year of “historic reconciliation.” “It is time to say we will reconcile but first let us apologize,” he said.

Source: thestar March 25, 2019 22:44 UTC