Nearly 30 years ago, Felipe VI, then a prince, attended the first inauguration of a president in Latin America. as heir He was invited to 68 other investitures and now as king he has been in 17 others. three decades almost official visits to the Spanish-speaking countries of America, strengthening Spain’s ties with states such as Colombia, where he was already in 1998, or Ecuador also in the same year.
He visited them all, especially Argentina, where Felipe VI went to Javier Milei’s inauguration. He kept coming even though his hoarseness bothered him.
Anecdotes of his more 80 buyouts of presidents in countries like Uruguay, Peru or Bolivia. In fact, there are few where this has not been the case and because Spain has decided not to send representation, such as that of Nicolas Maduro or that of Bukele.
But Mexico has a special place for Felipe VI: even in four times He was present as an official representative of Spain when the Aztec country changed its head of state. Both as a prince and as a monarch. In fact, it was his first inauguration which he attended as king.
López Obrador then stressed how united the two countries were. “The cultural and historical ties that unite the two countries with the presence of Felipe VI,” he said at his inauguration. Now, after Mexico’s veto According to the king during the inauguration of the new president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, this union between Spain and Mexico will not be realized. An unprecedented situation in the relations between Spain and Latin America.
