When Bernal Díaz del Castillo, soldier of Hernán Cortés, told the true story of the conquest of New Spain, what he described in the first line was not Mexico, nor anything resembling the Mexico of Today. The Spain of Cortés was not the Spain of today either, even if it was already a monarchy whose king rigorously collected, like a greedy owner, the fifth real that his mining estates rented in gold and silver. money. According to the French anthropologist Christian Duverger, Hernán Cortés is the authentic author and not Bernal Díaz of the detailed and well-founded chronicle.
Today, Mexico is an independent state and its legitimate representatives are democratically elected by Mexicans. And Spain, in turn, has its legitimate representatives elected equally by the people. The legitimate representatives of the Mexicans say that Spain, heir of this era, proud for many reasons, owes an apology, and that democratic and constitutional Spain does not seem to find a way to do so. It wouldn’t be original if that were the case. Other democracies have already offered some form of apology for their expansionist or colonial past, including some monarchies, among them the Vatican, involved in the inseparable society at that time between the cross and the sword. The historicist approach to these claims might be questioned, but I do not intend to delve into these territories in these short letters.
