A few weeks ago, the Mexican president demanded the King of Spain and the Pope an apology for the atrocities commited 500 years ago by the Spanish conquerors. You can read the whole piece here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47701876
There is a precedent in Australia: the Prime Minister gave a public apology in 2008 to the aborigens. You can watch it here:
or read it here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7241965.stm
Today we are going to debate about the need of apologies related to events that took place hundreds of years ago. Should the modern governments give apologies for what their nations did in the past?
In my opinion I think this demostrate how a country is and how its gobernants are. More countries should apologize.
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