Zunzunegui: "There was no conquest, the Spanish were received.": The word conquest is a lie. Mexico didn't exist. You can't conquer what doesn't exist. Who brought down Cuzco or Tenochtitlán? The local indigenous people allied with a handful of Spaniards. To call that a conquest or invasion is absurd. In the very specific case of Mexico, the fall of Tenochtitlán was by an army of 100,000 warriors, accompanied by Cortés and 400 Spaniards. Imagine, this army saw that they had already taken Tenochtitlán and realized that united they could take on anyone, even the Mexica. And do you think that once united they didn't think, "Hey, if we stay united we can also drive out the Spaniards"? But they didn't. In Mexico and in Spain, we don't tell this part of the story. All these indigenous peoples who allied with Cortés against the Mexica welcomed the Spaniards. There was no conquest; they were welcomed, signed agreements, forged alliances, made mixed marriages, and thus mestizaje (racial and cultural mixing) was born. The Spanish were welcomed by everyone except the Mexica.
https://www.eldebate.com/historia/20241203/zunzunegui-no-hay-ninguna-conquista-espanoles-fueron-recibidos_243227.html Juan Miguel Zunzunegui, Mexican academic, historian and writer Zunzunegui: "There was no conquest, the Spanish were received." "When you build a cathedral that takes 200 years to construct, that's not a colony, you're settling there to live," Zunzunegui explains. Gonzalo Jiménez Tapia December 3, 2024 - 4:30 AM 10 Share Add The Debate to Save The arrival of the Spanish in what would later be called America has been a subject of debate and misinterpretation, thanks in part to the Black Legend and a lack of knowledge of history itself. We spoke with Juan Miguel Zunzunegui , a Mexican historian, academic, and popularizer of history who has dedicated part of his research and outreach to critically examining the history of America and Mexico that we have been taught in schools and universities. Add us as a preferred source on Google — What is ta...