In his first foray in this ongoing campaign, López Obrador sent letters to the King of Spain and to Pope Francis in early 2019, “requesting them to give an account of offenses and to ask the indigenous peoples for forgiveness for violations of what today are known as human rights,” according to the president’s own summary. He has insisted on this now for the three years of his presidency, and isn’t letting up, despite rejection and mockery from almost all quarters, including the indigenous he claims to be defending. Mexico’s socialist president Andrés Manuel López Óbrador is on a crusade, or perhaps better put, an anti-crusade, to obtain an apology from Spain and the Catholic Church for the conquest and colonization of the Americas. Does the Catholic Church owe an apology for the conquest of the New World? – Catholic World Report Mexican President AndrÈs Manuel LÛpez Obrador attends a ceremony to mark the bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence from Spain at the National Palace in Mexico City Sept. Lopez Obrador’s take on the Spanish Conquest and the Catholic evangelization of the Americas, is, as is usual in ideologically-motivated critiques of colonialism, tainted with serious historical errors and an obvious anti-Catholic bias.
