Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a Spanish conservative politician who is the regional premier of Madrid, has landed in Mexico like a meteor, ready to use provocation as her most effective political weapon. Ayuso had been stirring things up for months with remarks about Mexico that have particularly irritated the Mexican left. Speaking from Spain, she had likened Claudia Sheinbaum’s government to the Cuban dictatorship, and defended the Spanish conquest of the Americas as a civilizing process rather than a genocide.

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