The weekly debate in the Madrid Assembly, in which the regional government reports on its activities, focused primarily on Mexico, especially the ill-fated trip of Madrid’s president, the right-wing Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who had to return abruptly due to the wave of protests and unrest sparked by her remarks about the country. Far from backtracking, the Spanish politician insisted: “Mexico didn’t exist until the Spanish arrived,” and directly questioned President Claudia Sheinbaum, asking her what lies underground at 24 Guatemala Street in Mexico City, alluding to the archaeological discovery of the Tzonpantli, a large skull rack from the Aztec culture resulting from human sacrifices.
The two main opposition groups focused their questions to the Madrid president on her trip to Mexico, which they described as a “paid vacation.” Díaz Ayuso, far from backing down, intensified her attacks: “Mexico didn’t exist until the Spanish arrived. Have a little more respect for yourselves because it was a different civilization,” she stated, later adding, “They talk about my trip, and I don’t know how many times I have to explain it. But it’s all manipulation that comes from a public television station that you control. You also have the same tactics as your narco-friends: a daily program called ‘Las Mañaneras’ (The Morning Press Conferences), to promote lawfare, to persecute judges, to harass the opposition, creating mafias to extort businesses, just like they do on both sides.”
Furthermore, the Madrid president again referred to the Conquest: “Just as they try to do in a revisionist way with history, attempting to create factions and also talking about the dead, it doesn’t matter if it was a century ago or five centuries ago. Ask the Mexican president and the Mexican people what’s at 24 Guatemala Street in Mexico City, what’s underground. Ask them about Mexico’s past before we united in mestizaje, which is what my government has defended because it is the truth and the history of us all. Ask Sheinbaum what’s underneath and why she doesn’t open it to the public, because perhaps we’ll have to start apologizing for so many lies and so much injustice in order to live off poverty, which is what communism always does to create dependency, to create grievances, to make people rotten, to leave them with nothing but distrust, negative emotions, nothing, no faith, no nation, no history, no family, no property. That’s what communism does to…” They are always working against liberal democracies and twisting the history of Spain. In Mexico, everyone is welcome, regardless of their political affiliation. Let’s see if they take note of how we are working; courtesy doesn’t preclude courage.”
Díaz Ayuso’s words were echoed by her spokesperson in the parliamentary group, Carlos Díaz Pache, also of the People’s Party (PP), who asserted that “President Ayuso was abandoned to her fate in a country mired in violence and with the far left cheering them on, on both sides of the Atlantic. We know that the radical government of Mexico is abandoning Mexicans because it permits or encourages violence and terror. More than a thousand public officials have been murdered since Morena, which is the equivalent of Podemos there, came to power.”
From the opposition, the Socialist Mar Espinar told the Madrid leader: “You, Ms. Ayuso, went to Mexico with the sole agenda of crowning yourself queen of the far-right international and you have returned crowned queen of compulsive lies.” And he asked her: “How is it possible that, being so scared, you endured five days there without any agenda? That you didn’t return to the safety of your penthouse on one of the six daily direct flights from Mexico to Madrid? They were drinking tequila to death, Ms. Ayuso… In Mexico, you’ve done the only thing you know how to do: insult, provoke, and then whine.” Finally, Espinar addressed a group of Mexicans present at the assembly, telling them that “Madrid is not Ayuso, that this disrespectful, extremist politician does not represent Madrid. Spain respects Mexico and is deeply grateful for what Mexico did for Spaniards after the Civil War and the Franco regime. Make no mistake, Ms. Ayuso, being a patriot is not about erasing our past, it’s about accepting it with its light and its shadows. No one is ashamed of Spain, but we are ashamed of you.”
Manuela Bergerot, from Más Madrid, also commented on the trip to Mexico: “For someone coming from the beach, you seem very angry. But tell us what risks you took in Mexico, when there aren’t even waves in the Caribbean. You are a compulsive liar and are becoming increasingly detached from reality. You wanted to go to Mexico to humiliate Mexicans by praising a conqueror who annihilated all your ancestors. And the only one humiliated has been you. You wanted to become the diva of the international right wing and have become a toxic asset for those who invited you to Mexico, booed in every corner you’ve set foot in.”
Source: jornada
