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…
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MY COMPARISONS – LONG LINES THROUGH THE COUNTRIES
Some hundreds Spanish conquistadors had faced many thousands of Indian warriors in 1519 in what we today call Mexico and in 1532 in what we call Peru. Initially 617 Spaniards in Mexico and 176 in Peru. Immediately an unequal fight in which the counterparts had different motivation, but where both parties fought fiercely; of course,…
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: THE CONQUEST SPEEDS UP
A few days after Atahualpa is executed, Pizarro appoints a replacement. A new Inca instead of the dead. Túpac Huallpa is also son of Huayna Cápac, and is half-brother of Atahualpa and Huáscar. With this appointment, Pizarro hopes to satisfy Inca nobles and soldiers, or at least to pacify them. Túpac Huallpa is attempted to…
MIKAEL WITTE 