By Oscar Muñoz Venezuela, on Resumen Latinoamericano on Oct 12, 2021 translation TheFreeOnline
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If Christopher Columbus were alive today, he would be tried for his monstrous crimes against humanity.
Columbus’s Reign of Terror is one of the darkest chapters in human history.
Amazingly, Columbus oversaw the sale of native girls for sexual slavery. Girls from 9 to 10 years old were the most desired by their men. In 1500, Columbus wrote about it in his diary.
He said:
“.. there are many traffickers looking for girls; nine to ten year olds are now in demand. “
Columbus forced these peaceful natives to work in his gold mines until they died of exhaustion. If an “Indian” worker did not deliver his entire quota of gold dust before the deadline given by Columbus, the soldiers cut off his hands and tied them around his neck to send a message.
Slavery was so intolerable to these sweet and gentle people that at one point a hundred of them committed suicide en masse. Catholic law prohibited the slavery of Christians, but Columbus solved this problem. He simply refused to baptize the natives of Hispaniola.
On his second trip to the New World, Columbus brought cannons and attack dogs. If a native resisted slavery, he would cut off a nose or an ear. If the slaves tried to escape, Columbus burned them alive. Other times, he would send attack dogs to hunt them down, and the dogs ripped off the arms and legs of the natives who screamed to death.
If the Spanish ran out of meat to feed the dogs, the Arawak babies were killed to feed them.
Columbus’s acts of cruelty were so unspeakable and so legendary – even in his day – that Governor Francisco De Bobadilla arrested Columbus and his two brothers, bound them in chains, and sent them to Spain to answer for their crimes against the Arawaks.
But the king and queen of Spain, with their treasury full of gold, forgave Columbus and released him.
One of Columbus’s men, Bartolomé De Las Casas, was so mortified by Columbus’s brutal atrocities against the natives that he stopped working for him and became a Catholic priest. He described how the Spaniards under Columbus cut the legs of children fleeing from them to test the sharpness of their blades.
According to De Las Casas, men made bets on who, with a single stroke of his sword, could cut a person in half. He says that Columbus’s men poured boiling soap on rebellious natives.
In a single day, De Las Casas was an eyewitness when Spanish soldiers dismembered, beheaded and / or raped 3,000 natives. “Such inhumanities and barbarities were committed in my sight and were without parallel at any time,” wrote De Las Casas. “My eyes have seen these acts so strange to human nature that now I tremble as I write.”
De Las Casas spent the rest of his life trying to protect the defenseless natives. But after a while, there were no natives left to protect. Experts generally agree that prior to 1492, the population of the island of Hispaniola probably exceeded 3 million.
Within 20 years of the arrival of the Spanish, it was reduced to only 60,000.
In 50 years, not a single original native inhabitant could be found.
In 1516, the Spanish historian Pedro Mártir wrote:
“A ship without a compass, chart or guide, but only by tracking the dead Indians who had been thrown from the ships could find their way from the Bahamas to Hispaniola.”
Christopher Columbus earned most of his income from slavery, De Las Casas observed. In fact, Columbus was the first slave trader in the Americas. When the native slaves became extinct, they were replaced by black slaves.
Columbus’s son became the first African slave trader in 1505.
Sources: Slave trade -mass murderers- Irish central columbus- Todorov’s book the conquest of America. Excerpts from Bartolome de las Casas.
In short, the retouched official story was written and told by Creoles who believe they are of Spanish royal lineage, leaving many macabre passages such as those described above on file.
On the other hand, the most recent statistics tell that Columbus, Cortéz, Pizarro and other bloodthirsty protagonists of the conquest and the colony, tortured and murdered more than 60 million of our aboriginal ancestors.
This is what our leaders have led us to celebrate, commemorate, honor.. honor for centuries. If you have dignity, some love for your land, conscience and common sense, we invite you not to or be part of the celebration of that massacre, of the tears and pain of our ancestors. I would like to see your comments.
Oscar Muñoz Venezuela
The Free 