Maduro will send a letter to Felipe VI to ask forgiveness for the "genocide" in America

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has announced that he will send a letter to King Felipe VI to expose him "with respect" that colonialism led to "the greatest genocide in the history" of humanity, with the hope that Spain can "rectify "and ask for forgiveness. "Every time Spain goes out to celebrate and dance on October 12, it offends historical memory," said Maduro. during a public act in which he has vindicated the American Indian past. In this sense, it has regretted that Spain has not chosen another "glorious day" to commemorate its national day, when "it could have chosen any date in its long history." The Venezuelan president considers that it is time for Spain to assume that "there were 300 years of colonialism and crimes against humanity", and hopes that the King, "a man of the 21st century", reflects and "apologizes" as the Pope has done. Francisco. Previously, in a series of messages posted on Twitter, he had attacked "the Spanish empire" that "more than 500 years ago, murdered, exiled and enslaved millions of inhabitants of the indigenous peoples", stressing that "Spain must rectify and apologize to all of America." Maduro will raise it with a letter to the King that he hopes to make known "in the next few hours," as the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, did previously, who also addressed the Spanish monarch with a letter. He will write "with respect, always with respect", he added. Likewise, he will send a second letter to the presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to propose the creation of a "truth commission" to investigate the colonial era.