The name of reggaeton player Arcángel is again marked by the controversy after the speech he issued at his recent concert in Madrid. during his time went viral for this city, the Boricua defended Spain against criticisms for the conquest of America and rejected that the country has to apologize for its colonial past.

Through social networks several videos have circulated that immortalized the words of Austin Agustín Santos, the singer's real name, shared from the stage of the Movistar Arena in Madrid.

In his speech in front of the thousands of attendees at the event, Archangel rejected the criticisms against the Spanish conquest and assured that the request for apologies for the colonial past are “absurd”.

“I know that you say Latinos, but for me we are not Latinos, we are Hispanic-Americans. The verda "The other Latin people are the Spanish, the French and the Portuguese," the famous is heard saying at the beginning of his message.

In this sense, he said grateful for the changes that the conquest brought with it: “Proud of all my beliefs, proud of the language that I carry, proud d e the mother country that was and gave light to us. Because we were Indians. These people came and made us speak and made us believe and made us to value.”

Likewise, he added: “The bastards who go around saying that Spain owes an apology to America. You bastard, and that stupidity, bastard? What world do you live in, son of a bitch?”, he questioned.

Archangel ended his reflection by saying: “Ah, they stole the gold, what this. You bastard, what about the streets, and the schools, and the churches that they built so that you were educated today? Where did it come from, son of a bitch? (…) I'm proud, I love my motherland, Spain. Give me a bulla, please”.

The statements of the singer arise in the amid of a tense moment in the relationship between Spain and Mexico driven by the visit to the country of the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso. During her time in Mexico City, the president defended the legacy of Hernán Cortés and qualified the Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum as “ultra-left dictator”.

The controversy raised level when Díaz Ayuso was denied entry to the Platinum Awards (held in Riviera Maya (Mexico) to “prevent the act from being used as a political platform,” the organization revealed.