For renowned historian Jorge Traslosheros, who holds a doctorate in Latin American studies, the so-called “black legend” of the Spanish conquest of lands in the Americas arose “essentially and ...

A brightly-colored page in the Codex Borgia, one of the artifacts requested by Mexico's president Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The history of the Americas is mired in colonial conflict and ...

Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a massacre of an Indigenous village and a hike between massive ...

Mexico's president published an open letter to Pope Francis Oct. 10 calling on the Roman Catholic Church to apologize for abuses of Indigenous peoples during the conquest of Mexico in the 1500s. In ...

A new law puts Protestants on equal footing with Roman Catholics. Since the days of the Spanish conquest, Roman Catholic Christians have held a public monopoly on religion in Chile. Only the Catholic ...

Spanish colonial rule divided Mexico with a class system that still affects society today. The Spanish Conquest laid the ground for 300 years of colonial rule which made Spain the richest country in ...

The meeting of Aztec Emperor Montezuma II and Hernán Cortés and the events that followed weigh heavily in Mexico half a millennium later. 500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being ...