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1 week ago

The battle over the colonial legacy in Mexico: Shadow theater for political gain'

Spanish colonial legacy in Mexico fuels enduring diplomatic tensions, political revisionism, and asymmetrical national memory that demand nuanced, non-binary historical interpretation.
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1 month ago

Mexico and Spain open the door to diplomatic reconciliation after seven years of tensions

Spain, which initially dismissed any possibility of issuing such an apology in strong terms, acknowledged last Friday through Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares that there was pain and injustice inflicted upon the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. While the statement did not come directly from the Crown, as the Mexican government had hoped, it nonetheless represents a gesture of enormous symbolic and political significance, aimed at repairing the strained diplomatic relationship which at times verged on hostility.
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