Overview
- Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said there had been “pain and injustice” toward Mexico’s indigenous peoples, speaking at the inauguration of the ‘La mitad del mundo’ exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum welcomed the remarks as a “first step,” repeating that forgiveness elevates governments and peoples and noting that bilateral ties remain in place.
- Spanish reporting stressed the comment as a gesture of rapprochement rather than an explicit state apology, leaving potential diplomatic follow-up still pending.
- The Mexico-organized exhibition features more than 400 works across four Madrid venues—the Casa de México, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Museo Arqueológico Nacional and Instituto Cervantes—and is scheduled to run until March 2026.
- Curated for Mexico’s Year of the Indigenous Woman, the show centers indigenous women as keepers of ancestral knowledge, with high-level cultural and diplomatic figures from both countries attending the opening events.