During a visit to an exhibition on Indigenous Mexican women at Madrid’s National Archaeological Museum, King Felipe VI of Spain publicly acknowledged — though stopped short of formally apologizing — that the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas involved “significant abuses” and “moral and ethical controversies,” marking the first time a Spanish monarch has directly addressed the subject.

What happened in Mexico during the Spanish colonial period has long been a point of contention between the two nations and Felipe’s admission of wrongdoing is important.

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