translated from Spanish: Mexico claims stolen documents from Hernán Cortés

Mexico.- The United States is auctioning at least 10 historical documents belonging to Hernán Cortés, which were stolen from the General Assembly of the Nation, so the Government of Mexico is looking for them to be returned. It was a group of historians who located, in September, the documents at the Swann Galleries auction house, when investigating them it was learned that it was one of the ten who, from 2017 to 2020, disappeared from the General Assembly of the Nation, so the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is already seeking help through the Washington Department of Justice.
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Searching for lost documents
Historians have long been monitoring auctions held in Mexico and abroad, as documents are disappearing from their original locations, in that surveillance was when they detected in September 2020 that at the Auction House Swann Galleries they were offering a Spanish royal order addressed to Cortés and Pedro de Alvaro in 1521.Read more : INAH sues Auction House Shotheby’s in New YorkMichel Robert Oudijk, academic at the Institute of Philological Research at the Autonomous Noional University of Mexico, assured that the documents belong to the Mexican File, since our country has photographs of the originals. The researcher also noted that such thefts happen as the institutions that take them into their care do not have sufficient security measures to prevent them from being taken away. Read more: AMLO apologizes to the people of China in Mexico for the 1911 Torreón massacre December 2018, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has claimed the historical objects of Mexico that have appeared in different parts of the world.

Original source in Spanish