Mexican president apologizes for 1911 Torreón massacre of Chinese Associated Press View Comments MEXICO CITY — Mexico's president presented an apology Monday for a 1911 massacre in which over 300 Chinese people were slaughtered by revolutionary troops in the northern city of Torreón. The apology is the latest in a series of ceremonies in which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has sought to make amends for the mistreatment of Indigenous and minority people in Mexico in past centuries. López Obrador said the point of the apology was to ensure "that this never, ever happens again," noting that during the period, Chinese were mutilated or hung from telegraph poles.