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 Because as of the 16th century, europeans invaded America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Destroying cultures and religions, subordinating economies and markets, enslaving and exterminating entire cultures; everything in favor of their economic and political interests, sheltered and by their religion.

The "official history" has been hispanic from 1520, when Hernán Cortés himself writes, the —Letters of Relation—, which are a totally partial vision of events, as they were intended to justify Cortés before the king of Spain, by having betrayed the Cuba governor, who subrogated the grant to steal gold from the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in what today is the national territory. The Hispanic history continues to depict Hernán Cortés as a great hero.

''"But the adversary that concerned Hernán Cortés the most was Diego Velázquez; and not without reason, since the governor sent, as soon as he could, Narvaez in pursuit. The reason to give to their situation legal appearance, indicate the importance of respect for the legal forms in conquests". (Jacques Lafaye. 1991)''

The conquistador.

Hernán Cortés was a man of his time. Son of a poor hidalgo, while a young man he was expelled from the Salamanca University, where he wanted to study law, due to his low academic results. Later he prepares to leave on an expedition to Italy, but he is attacked by an aggrieved husband and is confined to bed for several months, his biographers write with euphemism, "he liked to visit beds of married women", at the age of 19 sails to “make fortune” in America and landed on the island of Santo Domingo in 1502, in the new lands acted as scribe, agriculture hand, and later as a conqueror.

"The beginning of his stay (Cortes) in the new world as the circumstances of his journey, preceded by a picaresque tramp, contribute to depict him as a rather obscure emigrant."