Spain's apology for the abuses committed during the conquest of the ancient Aztec empire has been the most terrifying Halloween scare for the right wing, perpetually seeking resentment. They consider it a humiliation and claim that everything said about it is a fabrication, pure Hispanophobia. The reason It features a cover story and three columns on the same topic, beginning with the editor's. They say the Aztecs were cannibalistic barbarians and, therefore, that the people were grateful to be releasedthat the colonization processes carried out by England, France, and Belgium were much bloodier and that, by virtue of the Laws of Burgos, there were no Mexican slaves. But the stark reality is that from eighteen million souls, only two million remained: the other sixteen million wouldn't be very happy. The pretext "but the others are worse" isn't worth commenting on. And formal slavery didn't exist, granted, but Bartolomé de las Casas himself recorded that, by virtue of the so-called parcels They assigned indigenous people to those who had to fight for the Crown, forcing them into labor and abusive tributes that, in practice, amounted to the same thing. Surely, in the accounts of that time and more contemporary ones, there must have been people who contributed more bread than cheese, but to sell the idea that the Aztecs were fortunate... just looking at the demographic evolution with the toll of war, famine, and disease makes it clear that we're in the realm of cynicism.
One of the contributors to this display of redress offers the definitive argument: "If we hadn't had ancestors who went to and returned from the Indies, we wouldn't have potato omelets." Nor salmorejo, he adds later. So, charming descendant of indigenous people who have arrived on this side of the Atlantic to work, perhaps in precarious conditions, be thankful that you can also eat potatoes here. It's all advantages, kid!
