Security & Strategic Review - June 2026

On 28 April, Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares arrived in Mexico City (CDMX) for a two-day visit to consolidate growing ties between the governments of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum and Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. In recent years, relations between the two countries have been defined by a diplomatic dispute over the legacy of Spanish colonial rule in Mexico. In recent months, changing geopolitical headwinds and a growing affinity between the countries’ political leaderships have given rise to a carefully managed process of normalisation in bilateral relations, to which Albares’ visit paid testament.