"There were many debts among us, that we owed for crossbows at fifty and sixty pesos, and others for a fifty sword, and thus all things we bought were so expensive, a surgeon called master Juan, who cured some bad injuries and charged for the cure excessive prices, and also a quack healer called Murcía, who was an apothecary and barber, also cured, and other thirty traps and tarrabusterías that we owed, demanded we paid from the parts we obtained."(Bernal Díaz del Castillo). This passage confirms the expedition private rigid structure in which not even wounds are borne by the common, the soldiers greed is better explained in realizing it was not real army corps, but a partnership." (Silvio a. Zavala. 1933)[1]
The conquest philosophy.
The spaniards structured a philosophy that justified and legalized the invasion, destruction, subjugation and exploitation of indigenous peoples. To legitimize the injustice, atrocity and genocide, was the target of jurists, theologians, religious, noblemen, merchants and adventurers. Generate wealth from looting and crime was a "State reason".
"And have your majesty for very certain that according to the amount of land seems to be large, and the many mosques they have, there has not been a year, in what we have seen, they do not kill and sacrifice in this way three or four thousand souls. See your royal majesties if you should prevent such great evil and harm, and certainly God our Lord would be very well served, if by means of the hands of your royal highnesses these people were introduced and educated in our very holy catholic faith..." (Hernán Cortés. 1519)
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- ↑ Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado (born February 7, 1909) is a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions. Born in Mérida, Yucatán, he studied at the National University of Mexico and at the University of Madrid, obtaining a Ph.D. in law from the latter. He began his professional career in Spain in the Center for Historic Studies in Madrid.
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