[HarleyWoodrowMantz]

“And Cortes and Pizarro were what, exactly?” I agree, and the Spanish were particularly vicious slave-owners. But I think think the self-righteous LaRaza’s and Mecha’s identify with the indiginous natives.

[Red Badger]

But I think think the self-righteous LaRaza’s and Mecha’s identify with the indiginous natives.(sic)

Exactly. THEY should be angry with the Spanish and their descendants! I have heard that there are places in southern Mexico where Spanish is not spoken, and the Mexicans are not welcome.................

[muawiyah]

Hmm, Pizzarro turned into the richest man in the world ~ a title presently held by a Mexican.

Pizzarro financed DeSoto's explorations of "la Florida", a vast territory extending all the way to Chicago.

One of my collateral relatives (an ancestor) worked for Pizzarro in the first Latin American revolution ~ they rejected Spanish rule and refused to succumb to the Governor sent from Spain. He kind of won and then this fellow was drawn, quartered, executed and his parts tossed into the fields for the wild dogs to eat.

He was also a Protestant ~ just in case anybody wondered what happened to Spanish Protestants in those days!