Spain expresses regret over ‘injustice’ suffered by Mexico’s Indigenous people during conquest

Acknowledgment shows shift in tone after six years of diplomatic spats over colonial-era abuses

Spain has acknowledged and expressed regret over the pain and injustice" suffered by the Indigenous people of Mexico during its conquest of the Americas, heralding a shift in tone after six years of diplomatic spats over the abuses of the colonial period.

In March 2019, Mexico's then president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wrote to King Felipe VI and Pope Francis, who was then the leader of the world's Roman Catholics, urging them to apologise for the massacres and oppression" of colonialism and the conquest.