{"id":7075,"date":"2026-04-18T16:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/7075\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:59:22","slug":"mexico-mends-ties-with-spain-in-first-presidential-visit-in-8-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/7075\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico mends ties with Spain in first presidential visit in 8 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"912\" height=\"570\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"html-img h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d43d0753-claudia-sheinbaum-and-pedro-sanchez-tile-pic-180426.webp\"\/>Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum met Spain\u2019s Pedro S\u00e1nchez in Barcelona during a gathering of the global left.<br \/>\nBARCELONA: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Spain\u2019s Pedro Sanchez met in Barcelona on Saturday after a summit of progressive leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The meeting, reported by Spanish state news agency EFE, took place during Sheinbaum\u2019s visit to Barcelona to attend a gathering of the global left, organized by the Spanish government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Sheinbaum\u2019s visit signals a thawing in the strained diplomatic relations between the countries and marks the first visit by a Mexican president to Spain since the ruling Morena party took power in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The schism stems from Sheinbaum\u2019s predecessor and mentor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who requested an apology in 2019 for the abuses committed by colonizers during Spain\u2019s conquest of Mexico, and did not receive it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cI believe that President Sheinbaum\u2019s presence here is a very important and positive sign of a rapprochement between the two countries,\u201d Spain\u2019s economy minister told reporters at the summit, emphasizing the importance of advancing trade and investment between the two economies, particularly in the energy, infrastructure, and financial sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum met Spain\u2019s Pedro S\u00e1nchez in Barcelona during a gathering of the global left. BARCELONA:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4641,4642,247,4643,17,4644,2885],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-eight-years","tag-first","tag-mexico","tag-presidential","tag-spain","tag-ties","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}