Abuses, controversies, and real circumlocutions

The Spanish royal household has posted a video on social media showing and featuring Felipe de Borbón. Recorded standing in a circle with the Mexican ambassador to Madrid, he informally comments that yes, during the Conquest, there were "many abuses" and "controversies." Pope Francis has already apologized to Mexico for the atrocities committed in the name of the Catholic Church during evangelization, not to mention the apologies offered by the King of England to his former colonies. In other words, Spain is very late. So late, in fact, that to turn things around, it must begin with a gentle communication maneuver: in the supposedly informal realm of social media, without the weight of an official statement, much less a retraction of the narrative of October 12th, so as not to disrupt the breakfast of readers of theABC nor to Aznar, who made that clever joke about the name of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador:Andrew, on the part of the Aztecs; Manuel, on the part of the Maya; López, a mixture of Aztecs and Incas, and Obrador"From Santander," celebrated by the claque that listened to her.

Just in case, in the video you can feel how the Spanish monarch gets lost in all kinds of circumlocutions and obvious statements ("With today's criteria and our values, some facts cannot make us proud," but we must know them. The protective mantle of Queen Isabella of Castile, who made laws to protect the indigenous people that were later not enforced, is just bad luck.