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She Is Defending Someone Who Burned People Alive
Anyone who defends colonialism is either ignorant or complicit.
Spanish politician Isabel Díaz Ayuso praised Hernán Cortés as a visionary who brought freedom to the Americas, claiming colonization liberated indigenous people from Aztec tyranny.
Here are the facts.
In 1519, Cortés ordered his troops to trap thousands of unarmed citizens inside a sacred courtyard in Cholula. Spanish soldiers massacred nearly 5,000 civilians in a single afternoon.
After entering the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, Cortés kidnapped King Montezuma inside his own palace, using him as a puppet to extort gold.
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