López Obrador’s party calls Aznar “ass” for not asking for “forgiveness” for the conquest

The National Regeneration Movement (Morena), party of the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, compared this Thursday to the former president of the Spanish Government Jose Maria Aznar with the “asses” after his mockery about apologizing for the conquest.

The leader of Morena in the Chamber of Deputies, Ignacio Mier, assured in social networks that the last name Aznar comes from the Latin “asinarius” and means “the one who raises or takes care of donkeys”. “So origin is destiny, he became one of them. There is no doubt,” he settled.

Mier responded in this way to the words of Aznar, who this Thursday mocked the request of the Government of Mexico for Spain to apologize for the conquest and stressed that both the name and surnames of Andrés Manuel López Obrador have Spanish origin.

“‘And what is your name? My name is Andrés Manuel López Obrador’. Andrés for the Aztecs; Manuel for the Mayans; López is a mixture,” he ironized during the national convention of the Popular Party (PP).

Later, the president of Morena, Mario Delgado, said that Aznar is “a war instigator who openly supported” former Mexican President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), who declared a military war on drug trafficking.

“If he did not apologize to the Spanish people for the corruption and his bad government, we cannot expect anything from him,” argued Delgado.

“Thanks to our ancestors, Mexico is a free, independent and sovereign country. Our roots are indigenous and we derive from a mixture of immigrants, which is why our names, surnames and even skin color reflect it,” wrote the secretary of Energy, Dew nahle.

While the former ambassador of Mexico to the United States Martha Barcena (2018-2021) declared that “Mr. Aznar is unpresentable.”

“An unpresentable”

The intention of López Obrador was that during the 2021 commemorations for the 200 years of the independence of Mexico and the 500 years of the conquest of Hernan Cortes, the Mexican Government, the Spanish and the Catholic Church apologize to the Spanish and the Catholic Church to apologize to the Spanish and the Catholic Church to apologize for the “grievances” committed against the indigenous peoples.

But the letter he sent in 2019 to the king Felipe VI It cooled relations with Spain, a country that has declined to participate in these events and on Monday canceled its presence at the great act of the capital’s Zócalo at the last minute to celebrate the bicentennial of the consummation of Mexico’s independence.

The Government of Spain considered at the time that “the arrival 500 years ago of the Spaniards to present-day Mexican lands cannot be judged in the light of contemporary considerations.”

Instead, the pope Francisco He sent a letter this Monday in which he acknowledged “the mistakes of the past” and reiterated his request for “forgiveness for personal and social sins” committed by the Church during the conquest and evangelization of present-day Mexico.

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who a few days ago assured that “indigenism is the new communism”, replied to the Pope on Tuesday from Washington that the Catholic missions brought “freedom” to America.

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