Sheinbaum Excludes Spanish King from Inauguration Invitations
As a result, the Spanish government announced that it has “decided not to participate in (Sheinbaum’s) inauguration at any level.”
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Mexican Writer Receives Order of History from King of Spain
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican author, historian and journalist Enrique Krauze was presented with the third edition of the Spanish Order of History Award by King Felipe VI of Spain on Wednesday, July 7. In a solemn ceremony at the Monastery of San Lorenzo at El Escorial, just outside Madrid, the Spanish monarch presented a diploma and a
Read moreApologies, Now and Then: Conquest and Reconciliation
By MATT SEDDON Rector of Christ Church Mexico City In 1514, five years before Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of what is now México, the first Spanish priest ordained in the Americas, Bartolomé de las Casas, realized something was terribly wrong. He had benefited from the Spanish colonial encomienda system, which granted the labor of natives to the Spanish.
Read moreAMLO’s Wife Bursts her Way into the Media Limelight
By RICARDO CASTILLO Who’s behind the letter President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent to the king of Spain earlier this week demanding an apology for the atrocities against Mexican natives committed on orders of the king’s Borbón predecessors during 300 years of colonial rule from 1521 through 1821? The simple answer is, his wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller. Did she really
Read moreAMLO’s Letter to Spanish King Ignites a Firestorm
By RICARDO CASTILLO On March 6, Pulse News Mexico published an article offering a retrospective on the arrival of Hernán Cortés to Cozumel island. (It was the first incursion of a European army into the American continent with an intent to conquest.) It happened in 1519. Actually, the intent of that article was to set up an observation point from
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