Overview
- Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said there was “pain and injustice” toward Indigenous peoples and that it is right to acknowledge and deplore it.
- The remarks came at the opening of “Half the World: Women in Indigenous Mexico” in Madrid, a show of more than 400 works loaned by Mexico across several venues.
- Albares framed the exhibition as part of a shared path of justice and reconciliation.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum welcomed the expression of regret as the first such statement by a Spanish government official and said apologies ennoble governments.
- Spain did not issue a formal apology, a sticking point since Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s 2019 request, and opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo criticized the government’s stance.