Mexico’s New Hit Musical Is the Anti

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Mexico’s New Hit Musical Is the Anti-‘Hamilton’

A long-running spat over Spain’s colonial history has now taken theatrical form. September 26, 2025, 3:08 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

People leap and dance in a stage with dramatic lighting.

In 2019, on the 500th anniversary of Hernán Cortés’s arrival in Mexico, then-Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador caused great controversy in the Spanish-speaking world when he asked King Felipe VI of Spain to apologize for what the Spanish had done to the Indigenous peoples of Mexico. The public dispute simmered on into the presidency of AMLO’s successor, Claudia Sheinbaum. The King of Spain, having failed to issue the desired historical apology, was not invited to Sheinbaum’s inauguration as Mexico’s first fema