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Spain's king makes rare acknowledgement of country's colonial abuses

Spain's King Felipe VI acknowledged abuses in his country's colonial past on Monday, a rare admission by the Spanish crown ​which has never issued a formal apology to former ‌colonies. At its height in the 16th to 18th centuries, Spain ruled one of the largest empires in world history, spanning five continents including ​much of Central and Latin America, and practiced forced ​labour, land expropriation and violence against Indigenous people. Spanish colonial ⁠laws "wanted to protect. But in reality, things didn't work out ​as they were originally intended and there was a lot of abuse," ​the king said during a visit to the museum of archaeology in Madrid. "When we study certain things under modern-day criteria, with our values, obviously, we can’t feel ​proud. But we must learn from this, within its ​context, without too much moralising. We must learn lessons through objective and rigorous analysis,” ‌Felipe ⁠added. Read: Trump says he can do 'anything I ...
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Spain's king makes rare acknowledgement of country's colonial abuses

Spain's King Felipe VI acknowledged abuses in his country's colonial past on Monday, a rare admission by the Spanish crown ​which has never issued a formal apology to former ‌colonies. At its height in the 16th to 18th centuries, Spain ruled one of the largest empires in world history, spanning five continents including ​much of Central and Latin America, and practiced forced ​labour, land expropriation and violence against Indigenous people. Spanish colonial ⁠laws "wanted to protect. But in reality, things didn't work out ​as they were originally intended and there was a lot of abuse," ​the king said during a visit to the museum of archaeology in Madrid. "When we study certain things under modern-day criteria, with our values, obviously, we can’t feel ​proud. But we must learn from this, within its ​context, without too much moralising. We must learn lessons through objective and rigorous analysis,” ‌Felipe ⁠added. Read: Trump says he can do 'anything I want' with Cuba He toured an exhibition about indigenous women in Mexico and was accompanied by the Mexican ambassador to Spain, Quirino Ordaz. Spain and Mexico have had diplomatic tensions over the legacy of ​Spanish colonial rule. In ​2019, Mexico's ⁠then-President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador asked the Spanish government and late Pope Francis to apologise to ​indigenous Mexicans for wrongs committed during the ​Spanish conquest, often ⁠in the name of spreading Catholicism and civilisation. Five years later, Lopez Obrador's successor, Claudia Sheinbaum, decided not to invite the Spanish king ⁠to ​her inauguration after the monarch declined ​to apologise for colonial-era abuses, a snub that Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez ​called "unacceptable".

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