Today, the populations of Mexico and Peru are results of meetings between Indians and Spaniards; in most, genes originate from them, and then there are genes caused by Africans, Danes, Frenchmen, Italians, Japanese, Chinese, Lebanese, Russians, Germans and others who sailed or were sailed to America. This cultural mixture has at the Tlatelolco, where the…
Tag: 1533
PERU: A ROYAL RESCUER
In this chaos, when the Spanish soldiers are facing one days march from Cusco, a young man emerges from an apparent nothingness. I know it may sound like a narrators solution when the action has to speed up. But then: The young man presents himself to Pizarro: I, Manco Inca, is son of Inca Huayna…
PERU: ATAHUALPA SENTENCED TO DEATH
The sun is setting on July 26, 1533 while Spanish soldiers led Sapa Inca Atahualpa with iron around the neck into the square where he had been captured eight months earlier. A blast on a trumpet opens the show trial with Pizarro and Almagro as judges, Sancho de Cuellar as clerk and Filipillo as interpreter….
PERU: ATAHUALPA DØMMES TIL DØDEN
Solen synker den 26. juli 1533 mens spanske soldater fører sapa inka Atahualpa med jern om halsen ind på pladsen, hvor han var blevet taget til fange otte måneder forinden. Et stød i en trompet åbner skueprocessen med Pizarro og Almagro som dommere, Sancho de Cuellar som sekretær og Filipillo som oversætter. 12 spørgsmål stilles…
MIKAEL WITTE 