Diplomatic relations between Mexico and Spain stalled in 2019, when former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent a letter to the Spanish government demanding accountability for damage caused to Indigenous peoples during the Spanish Conquest.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has recently been taking a firmer stance with the U.S., defying pressures where other countries have caved.

By Aida Pelaez-Fernandez and Joan Faus BARCELONA, April 18 (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Spain's Pedro Sanchez met in Barcelona on Saturday after a summit of progressive leaders,

End to diplomatic freeze between Spain and its former colony?

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum protested the deaths of Mexican citizens in U.S. immigration custody and made her criticism of Donald Trump’s administration policies toward Cuba clear. The progressive leader had walked a careful line with Trump for more than a year,

The Mexican president says there were never tension over Spainish colonisation, which had become a thorny issue.