As Mexico looks back on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, an award-winning filmmaker wants his fellow Mexicans and others to confront their national identity — and ...

MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador asked Spain on Tuesday to set up a kind of fact-finding commission on the 1519-1521 conquest of Mexico to determine what kind of apology is ...

Five hundred years after Hernán Cortés conquered Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire, a Spanish mayor is demanding the return of the conquistador's remains to his birthplace because of what ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is marking its Day ...

Mexico's left-wing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has asked Spain and the Vatican to apologize to his country for the conquest of the Americas five centuries ago, a move met with a stark ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) – There are two ways of remembering the Spanish siege of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital now known as Mexico City: as the painful birth of modern Mexico, or the start of centuries of ...

VERACRUZ, Mexico — Modern American history started here half a millennium ago. On Good Friday in 1519, the renegade Spaniard Hernan Cortes came ashore and founded Veracruz (Spanish for “True Cross” in ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president published an open letter to Pope Francis on Saturday calling on the Roman Catholic Church to apologize for abuses of Indigenous peoples during the conquest of Mexico ...