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The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), assured this Wednesday that there is a relationship of
"brotherly respect" with Spain
, but that the decision of the Government of
Pedro Sánchez
not to apologize for the abuses committed during the Conquest does not allow "improvement our relationships. " After the question posed by
Alberto Peláez
, a Spanish journalist who worked for several decades in Mexico, the Mexican leader has argued that Spain "lacked humility," but that this will not prevent all the planned commemorative events from being carried out. for this year.
In reference to the letter sent to
Felipe VI
, the Mexican president regretted that "they do not even have the delicacy to answer it, they filter it and the attacks on me and the Government, authorities, pro-monarchical intellectuals,
Vargas Llosa
and other writers, the press, radio and television programs from Spain, making fun of our proposal. " AMLO believes that the media reaction was excessive and the attitude of the Government of Spain arrogant: "Why did they have to apologize, with much arrogance,
they forget that power is humility."
On the occasion of the triple anniversary that is commemorated in 2021 -700 years of the founding of the Aztec capital, 500 of the Conquest and 200 of the Independence- the Mexican Government has organized a total of 12 commemorative events, in which it wanted Spain to participate. . As the president explained: "In this context, we consider it important that the Government of Spain, as a gesture of goodwill to improve our relations and to give reasons for historical relations, apologize for excesses, for authoritarianism that was exercised during the invasion, during the Conquest (...) We propose to them that these are times of reconciliation to look to the future. Not
only condemning authoritarianism, robbery, looting of Mexico
, but also recognizing what was contributed from Spain and Europe to our country ".
After addressing the historical question and reading the letter sent to Felipe VI to the media,
López Obrador took advantage of the moment to criticize Spanish companies again
in the country that, he says, "saw us as a land of conquest and dedicated themselves to looting, stealing, of course, with the support of the Mexican authorities." Spain is the second largest foreign investor in Mexico, only behind the US, with more than 5.5 billion dollars injected into the Mexican economy during the last six years. Spanish companies have an important weight in the telecommunications, banking and energy sectors. This last field is the one that has especially bothered López Obrador and the one that has motivated his controversial energy reform, which is currently paralyzed by the courts that consider it unconstitutional.
"It was abused in the neoliberal period and
acts of corruption were committed by Spanish companies
(...) We have cases like Repsol, with very juicy contracts, very good for them, very bad for Mexico's public finances, the case OHL, also preferred by the Government ", explained the president.
López Obrador recalled that
"Mexico remains open to foreign investment from Spain,
legal businesses that are not done under the protection of public power, through influences, that have nothing to do with corruption."
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