The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, assured this Tuesday before commanders and troops of the Army that the conservative sectors that claim the conquest and the figure of Hernán Cortés "are destined for defeat." Her statements come amid an official visit to Mexico by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
"To those who seek foreign intervention in Mexico; to those who today boast and defend interference; to those who applaud foreign televisions when they speak ill of Mexico; to them we say, with truth and justice, that those who seek external support because they lack popular support in our country are destined for defeat," he emphasized during his speech on the occasion of the 164th anniversary of the Battle of Puebla.
Along the same lines, he has insisted that "those who revive the conquest as salvation" will end up losing. "To those who believe the people are foolish, they are destined for defeat; to those who seek to vindicate Hernán Cortés and his atrocities, they are destined for defeat," he has remarked, raising his tone against those who, in his opinion, underestimate the Mexican people.
The head of the Mexican State has stressed that the country's citizens "love their freedom, their independence, their sovereignty". "Let us never forget that the path is always marked by honesty, by love for the people and by love for the homeland, for independence, for freedom and for sovereignty," she added, linking these values to historical memory and the political present.
Sheinbaum's statements come after the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, defended this very Tuesday the "five centuries of miscegenation" between Spain and Mexico, which she has described as a stage marked by "hope, joy, and alliances" against "discourses of hate that divide," also claiming that "freedom never has to apologize for being freedom."
During the meeting "Celebration for Evangelization and Mestizaje in Mexico: Malinche and Cortés", held in Mexico City, Díaz Ayuso also vindicated the figure of Isabella I of Castile, a "free and coherent woman who, from her faith and deep love for Spain and for Hispanidad, changed the history of the West".