Madrid leader takes issue with pope's apology for 'painful errors' in Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

Spain brought Catholicism, civilisation and freedom to Americas, says Isabel Díaz Ayuso

Sam Jones in Madrid and Angela Giuffrida in Rome
Wed 29 Sep 2021 08.23 EDT

The rightwing president of the Madrid region has taken issue with the pope’s recent apology for the church’s “very painful errors” in Mexico, and said Spanish conquistadors brought Catholicism, civilisation and freedom to Latin America.

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Francis’s words did not impress Ayuso. “I’m surprised that a Catholic who speaks Spanish should talk that way about a legacy such as ours, which actually took Spanish – and through the [religious] missions – Catholicism, and therefore civilisation and freedom, to the American continent,” she said. “It’s just surprising. There’s not much more I can say.”

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Two days earlier, Ayuso had attacked “populist” indigenous movements across Latin America, saying they were promoting “a simplistic revision of Spanish history” and trying to “wreck Spain’s legacy in the Americas … [such as] the mixing and fusion of cultures that have forged such strong Atlantic links”.

She said Spain’s legacy in the Americas was “one of the greatest landmarks in history” and accused Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and other regional leaders, of “promoting an indigenism that is the new communism”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/29/madrid-leader-takes-issue-with-popes-apology-for-painful-errors-in-mexico







Isabel Díaz Ayuso

[Champp]

1. They brought packs of war dogs, too.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thanks for the information. That added to the overkill, for sure, no doubt about it.

I do remember hearing that term, "Dogs of War" before, but didn't know the Spanish invaders used them. Unforgivable.

The illustration illuminates how monstrous that would be. Absolutely fiendish.