Andrés Manuel López Obrador affirms that relations between the two countries “is not good” and accuses companies and politicians of “looting”
Mexico stirs up its past. The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, attacked this Wednesday against Spanish companies and politicians (which he did not identify) accusing them of “looting” and taking his country as a “land of conquest” for two decades. “They were like owners of Mexico,” reproached the president, who has repeatedly criticized the role of Spain, going back even to the conquest. The Latin American leader admitted in an appearance before the media that now “the relationship is not good” between the territories.
For this reason, he proposed taking a “pause” in relations between the two countries. “It is better to give us some time, to pause. Maybe when the (Mexican) government changes, relations will be restored,” Obrador commented during his morning press conference. “I would like it to take us until it was normalized, to take a break, which I think will suit us Mexicans and Spaniards,” he pointed out.
“We want to have good relations, but we don’t want them to rob us,” stressed the president, who emphasized the case of some Spanish companies, without mentioning which ones, although he spoke of companies in the energy and construction sectors that made contracts with governments. by Vicente Fox (2000-2006), Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) and Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018).
It should be noted that these statements come two weeks after the Minister of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, assured during an appearance in the Senate that there was “interest in opening a new page.” “In the coming months we are going to greatly strengthen relations with Mexico,” he said.
“Historical Responsibility”
It is not the first time that the Mexican government has stirred up the past and reproaches Spain for its refusal to apologize for the “abuses committed during the conquest”, as he requested for the past year, when 500 years of the event were commemorated, renamed ” indigenous resistance. In fact, Obrador sent King Felipe VI a letter demanding that “the Spanish State admit its historical responsibility for the offenses committed during the conquest and offer the appropriate apologies or political compensation.”
The Spanish Executive, for its part, has at all times minimized the criticism, which it has come to frame in “the internal debates” of the Aztec country, and has recognized the importance of the relationship with Mexico, “a strategic partner.” However, he has also made it clear that he will not apologize for the past.
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