Spain plunged in poverty and ignorance, as they had recently finished the costly re-conquest war with the Arabs. The bunch of uneducated men and eager to enrich themselves by plundering and exploitation, were used and funded by merchants to begin the conquest of the world. However, it was the Anglo-Saxons eventually who fulfilled the historical mission of the "merchants" assigned as the "armed wing" of the market to conquer the world, first from England and later from the United States.
"Once I saw that, having burning on a grill four or five important people or lords (and I even think there were two or three other pairs of grills where others were burnt) and because they loudly shouted and saddened the captain or kept him from sleeping, he commanded they were drowned, and the sheriff, who was worse than an executioner, who burnt them, did not want to drown them, before, with his hands he put sticks in their mouths so that they did not scream and added fire until they were grilled for as long as he wanted. I saw all the things above mentioned and many other infinite. And because the people who could flee, locked themselves up in the mountains and went up to the mountains fleeing from such inhuman men, that without mercy and such ferocious beasts, eradicators and capital enemies of human lineage, they taught and trained hounds and brave dogs than upon seeing an Indian they would break him in pieces, within a payer, and they better attacked them and ate them as if they were pork. These dogs made huge ravages and butcheries. And because seldom, rare and few times, the Indians killed some Christians with just reason and holy justice, spaniards made a law among themselves, that by every Christian killed by indians, Christians would kill one hundred Indians... from the many forces, violence and harassment they made, soon the indians began to understand that these men could not have come from heaven." (Bartholomew de Las Casas. 1552)[1]
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- ↑ Bartolomé de las Casas O.P. (c. 1484[1] – 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". His extensive writings, the most famous being "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" and "Historia de Las Indias", chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies, focusing particularly on the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the Indigenous peoples.
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