The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, met this Friday morning in a closed-door meeting at the National Palace in which they talked about commercial relations between the Latin country and the European Union, as well as other issues related to science and culture, regarding the celebration of 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, scheduled for 2030. The president announced the day before that she will also ask the French head of state to send the Code of Azcatitlán of Mexico, which has been in the National Library of the European country since 1898, although it has not been specified whether its return or loan will be requested. The document represents an important testimony to the origins of pre-Hispanic Mexico and the resistance of the Aztecs to the arrival of the Spanish. “We are very keen on sending this code,” Sheinbaum said in his conference this Thursday.
The petition is part of a policy of recovering pre-Hispanic cultural heritage initiated by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and continued by his successor. Among the countries most predisposed to the return of this type of piece, Italy stands out, with which Mexico has maintained intense communication in recent years. Until March 2023, the morenists had managed to repatriate more than 11,500 assets.
