Ayuso: "Mexico did not exist until the Spanish arrived"

BarcelonaIsabel Díaz Ayuso further tightens the noose with Mexico. The Madrid president doesn't seem to have had enough with the controversy over her trip to the country, in which she championed the conqueror Hernán Cortés, and this Thursday she made another statement with clear provocative intent: "Mexico did not exist until the Spaniards arrived," she blurted out in the plenary session of the Madrid Assembly. "It was another civilization," she added in response to criticism from the PSOE over her stay in Mexico.

Ayuso, who has accused the opposition of "twisting history," urged the opposition to ask the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, "what is the past of Mexico before we united in mestizaje." She thus alluded to a tzompantli or Mayan skull rack that was excavated in Mexico City, according to the Efe agency. "Perhaps we will have to start apologizing for so many lies," she concluded.

Ayuso's actions and interventions stirred up tempers and generated protests in Mexico, to the point that she decided to advance her return to Madrid. In her opinion, as she stated this morning in an interview on EsRadio, it was Pedro Sánchez who "promoted" a "boycott" against her, and she claimed - without providing any proof - that President Sheinbaum received orders from Spain to "sabotage" her trip.

If two days ago she already accused the Spanish and Mexican governments of having put her in danger, this Thursday she insisted that she cut short her stay for security reasons: “In a narco-state life is very compromised. If something happens to you there, on the way to the airport, going or coming back, no one takes responsibility”, she stressed. And she still added: “I, for freedom, for coherence, risk my life, but not that of my entire team”.

In the intervention after the Assembly, she rejected the opposition's reproaches for not having made her agenda public in Mexico and assured that she went there to “work”. She defended that other regional leaders also do so on their institutional trips, and added that, in this case, with the added value that “98% of Mexican investment in Spain comes directly to Madrid”.