Dispossession, injustice, illegality, violence, were the foundation with which the Colonial Mexico was built; and this, not only against indians and blacks, but the own creole spaniards, those that three centuries later would declare a war of independence, between Creoles and Spaniards.
"The Spaniards were also deeply harmed [gold], if not physically, morally. Cortes not just stole everything he could from his own soldiers, as already noted, but also found the way of extorting from his own allies, to whom he owed everything. Fernando Alva Ixtlixóchitl attests that when his namesake great-grandfather requested the release of his brother Coanacochtzin, Cortés refused, claiming that he was prisoner of the king, and when he begged that at least the shackles were remove as were causing blisters, Cortés agreed, but for a fee in “cash” or gold." (Jose Luis Guerrero. 1990).
During these three hundred years, the anahuaca peoples were treated, first as animals, until it was judicially demonstrated at the Vatican that they had souls, and later as defeated primitive beings, who did not have any rights in the new colonial order. They were tried to be exterminated, not just physically, but fundamentally tried to destroy their cultures and civilization.
"Sepulveda utilized the works of the early Indies chroniclers, particularly those of Oviedo, to demonstrate the superiority of the Spanish civilization over the American cultures and to denigrate the indigenous. With data from Oviedo and humanistic conceptions about civilized peoples, he showed that the native americans lacked science, writing, and humanitarian law, making them unable them to construct fair and rational societies. On the contrary, he asserted that they were addicted to idolatry and practiced human sacrifice and cannibalism, accusations which today would be considered as crimes against humanity. As they lacked qualities indicative of civilized life, they deserved to be subjugated and governed by the spaniards." (Enrique Florescano. 1987)
The anahuacas lost their freedom, the right to an education, maintaining their culture, their language, the land property and all their
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