This video moved me to tears.

In this breathtaking celebration marking the 700th anniversary of the founding of Tenochtitlán, Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, stands before the Zócalo and tells a truth too long buried:

“Mexico did not begin with the Spanish.”

It began long before — with Cuicuilco, Teotihuacan, the Mexica, the Maya, the Otomí, the Purépecha, and hundreds of other Indigenous nations whose legacies still live in the language, the food, the music, the very spiritual DNA of the land.

Sheinbaum’s speech isn’t just historical. It’s radical.

“To honor Tenochtitlán is not to speak of a dead past,” she says.

“It is to speak of a living pulse that beats beneath our capital city… in our words, our customs, and above all, in our cultural greatness and our identity.”

She calls for the eradication of racism, not as a symbolic gesture, but as a moral and historical necessity. She names the myth of harmonious mestizaje for what it is: a fantasy that masks the violence of colonization and the enduring discrimination against Indigenous people.

But here’s the difference: she doesn’t stop at naming the problem.

She gives land back.

She allocates reparative grants to Indigenous groups — not one-time payments, but ongoing support that recognizes ancestral sovereignty.

She celebrates Indigenous survival not as nostalgia but as the heart of Mexico’s future.

Claudia Sheinbaum is not just a president.

She is the antidote to Trumpism — and to every colonizer lie baked into modern nationalism.