Mexico appointed Hernán Cortés commander of the National Guard with the new change of government after President Claudia Sheinbaum came to power. The name caused a stir on social media, due to the coincidence with the Spanish explorer Badajoz, who led the conquest of the Aztec Empire, known as the Conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Video of the inauguration of Brigadier General Hernán Cortés Hernández, as commander of the National Guard, went viral on the networks, after the controversy between Mexico and Spain. Mexico refused to invite King Felipe VI to Sheinbaum’s inauguration due to Felipe VI’s refusal to seek forgiveness precisely for the “wrongs caused” for the conquest led by Hernán Cortés.
In his claims to kingship, Sheinbaum also made a historical error in addressing the founding of Tenochtitlan. According to Sheinbaum’s text to the king, Tenochtitláncapital of the Mexican empire which fell into the hands of Cortés and his indigenous allies on August 13, 1521, was founded “two centuries ago”, in 1824. An attempt to link this city to the independence of Mexico from live in Spain. Tenochtilan dates back centuries before the Spaniard Hernán Cortés.
The inauguration ceremony of Mexican Hernán Cortés took place this October 5 in the Plaza de la Lealtad, located at the headquarters of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) in Lomas de Sotelo, Mexico. Brigadier General A graduate of the General Staff, Hernán Cortés was the first active general to occupy the command of the National Guard since its creation in 2019.
Hernán Cortés Hernández nBorn October 4, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He General Cortés also served as a soldier at the Mexican Embassy in Germany and Poland.based in the city of Bonn, Germany. He also served as military attaché at the Mexican Embassy in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, based in Paris.
He a soldier becomes head of the National Guard after the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of Mexico approved by qualified majority the constitutional reform so that the National Guard is controlled by the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena).
The National Guard was created in May 2019 as a civilian institution against which there were complaints of corruption and drug trafficking. don the six-year mandate of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)the National Guard has played a major role in the fight against drug trafficking.
