Mexico’s populist, nationalist leader has engaged in periodic quarrels with Spain but relations reached a new low Wednesday when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the two countries’ relations should be put on “pause.”
López Obrador made it sound sort of like a time-out for Spain, a country he had previously asked to apologize for the brutality of the 1521 Conquest of Mexico and centuries of colonial rule. Spain never did, and some have accused López Obrador of using the five-century-old issue to distract attention.
