Mexico City. President Claudia Sheinbuam Pardo assured this Saturday that the arrival of the Spanish to America “represented the subjugation and even elimination of the native peoples.”
In the context of the commemorations of October 12, the president assured that this date should not be race day or Hispanic Day.
“October 12 is not the day of race or Hispanicity. Christopher Columbus discovered America for the Europeans, but in our continent and particularly in what we call Mexico today, there were already great civilizations and cultures of which we feel proud and proud,” said Sheinbaum Pardo on the X platform.
“The arrival of the Spanish more than five centuries ago represented the subjugation and even elimination of the native peoples. Offering apologies for crimes committed is not shameful; On the contrary, it magnifies and brings people together,” he insisted.
Later, in Nezahualcóyotl, state of Mexico, Sheinbuam Pardo asserted that “no one discovered us, there was already a Mexico here before,” made up of its great cultures.
On the esplanade of the Municipal Palace, and in honor of his Tlatoani, whose sculpture is in this same space, he stressed that the greatness of Mexico “is nourished by the indigenous peoples, who have now been recognized as subjects in the Constitution.” of rights.”
He also questioned that for a long time it was said that the Conquest “was a very peaceful encounter,” but that “it had nothing to do with it, there were massacres in Cholula, in the Templo Mayor, the towns that existed then were subjugated.”
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