Mexico has formally asked apologies from Spain and the Vatican for human rights abuses during the conquest of the region, 500 years ago.
The Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has written letters to the Spanish King Felipe VI and Pope Franciscus some weeks ago, he told during a visit on March 26, 2019 to the ruins of the Maya city near Comalcalco. The President stated that ‘(t)he time has come to reconcile. But let us ask forgiveness first.’ He did not ask for financial compensation.
The Spanish Government has already ‘firmly rejected’ the plead for apologies.