A FLOOD OF TEARS AND BLOOD : AND YET THE POPE SAID INDIANS HAD SOULS
Historical background
In 1581
Philip II
Father and Mothers name
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Isabella Of Portugal
Born
May 21th, 1527
Death
September 13, 1598
Latin America´s Indians situation
The had to pay tributes for the dead.
They were bought and sold
They were tortured
New World for Spanish and Portuguese crown
The nascent mercantilist capitalism system.
revived
The price of the tide of avarice
Terror
Genocide
Ferocity
The Militaqnat Memory Of Tupac Amaru
Inca Empire
Peru,Bolivia and Ecuador
Tupac was tortured, along with his wife and his children
Spanish Court
Protection & dignity to the Indians
The fiction of legality
The reality of exploitation
Superficial changes in the real situation only.
In three centuries Potosi's Cerro Rico
8 million lives
Women and children
A thousand deaths and disasters
A mouth of hell
At the end of the eigthteenth century
Mita
Labor system was a machine for crushing Indians
Ideological justifications
An argument for the faith
Subtopic
Encomienda
A labor system instituted by the Spanish crown in the American colonies.
In this system, a Spanish encomendero was granted a number of native laborers who would pay tributes to him in exchange for his protection.
For the Indians, no resurrection at the end of holy week
Exiled in their own land
Condemned to an eternal exodus
The InLatin Americdians have suffered, and continue to suffer, the curse of their own wealth, that is the drama of all Latin America
Latin Americas native peoples were pushed into the poorest areas