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Mexico’s snub to King Felipe rekindles colonialism row with Spain

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Admin

President-elect refuses to invite Spanish king to her inauguration after lack of apology for crimes of conquest

A festering diplomatic row between Mexico and Spain has been reopened after the Latin American country’s leftwing president-elect refused to invite King Felipe to her inauguration because of his failure to apologise for crimes committed against Mexico’s Indigenous people during the conquest 500 years ago.

In 2019, Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador wrote to King Felipe and Pope Francis, calling for them to apologise for the “abuses” of the conquest and the colonial period.

Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum poised to secure supermajority after historic win

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Admin

The leader of the Morena party could pass legislation and budgets unopposed through congress

She is poised to become Mexico’s first female president. Can she escape Amlo’s shadow?

Claudia Sheinbaum seems poised to cement her historic victory as Mexico’s first female president with a supermajority in congress that would let her party pass legislation and budgets unopposed – and perhaps even change the constitution without need for compromise.

Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with 59.5% of the vote, according to a rapid sample count by Mexico’s electoral authority.