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24
September
2024

Spain rejects Mexico’s demand for royal apology over conquest

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📅 24 September 2024 📍 Spain

Spain’s foreign ministry called the exclusion of King Felipe VI from Mexico’s presidential inauguration unacceptable after Mexico said its earlier request for an apology had gone unanswered. Spain did not apologize; the dispute illustrates official resistance to a formal reckoning with conquest violence.

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Felipe VI

Claudia Sheinbaum

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Organizations in this Event

Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Government of Mexico