Spain: king admits abuses during Spanish conquest

El Mundo columnist Federico Jiménez Losantos is unimpressed by the king’s admission:

“There wasn’t ‘a great deal of abuse’ on Spain’s part during the conquest of Mexico. The first thing it did was put an end to the abuses committed by the Aztecs, who sacrificed thousands of people from neighbouring tribes every year. … The Spanish brought churches, hospitals, universities, libraries, printing presses, navigation, architecture, engineering, language and religion to the Americas – the best of European civilisation. And the best of modern-day Mexico.”