MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador asked Spain on Tuesday to set up a kind of fact-finding commission on the 1519-1521 conquest of Mexico to determine what kind of apology is ...

VERACRUZ, Mexico — Modern American history started here half a millennium ago. On Good Friday in 1519, the renegade Spaniard Hernan Cortes came ashore and founded Veracruz (Spanish for “True Cross” in ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) – There are two ways of remembering the Spanish siege of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital now known as Mexico City: as the painful birth of modern Mexico, or the start of centuries of ...

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As Mexico looks back on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, an award-winning filmmaker wants his fellow Mexicans and others to confront their national identity — and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ancient Aztec temple, foreground, and a Spanish colonial church, top center, stand amid modern buildings in the Plaza of Three ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president published an open letter to Pope Francis on Saturday calling on the Roman Catholic Church to apologize for abuses of Indigenous peoples during the conquest of Mexico ...