King Felipe VI and President Claudia Sheinbaum held a meeting this Thursday at the Palacio Nacional, marking a key step in the diplomatic thaw between Spain and Mexico after seven years of tensions.
The meeting took place in the Mexican capital and lasted a short time, according to the parties. It served to seal the normalization of bilateral relations, which had cooled since 2019 due to a letter from former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador demanding apologies for abuses during the conquest.
Felipe VI arrived in Mexico at Sheinbaum's invitation for the World Cup. The monarch will attend Spain's match against Uruguay in Guadalajara this morning.
Sheinbaum had described the king's prior words on abuses during colonization as a gesture of rapprochement, though incomplete. The meeting included no press conference.
