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 What ensued could only be possible by the spanish barbarism, the confusion and resentment of the native allies. The spaniards lead the looting, destruction and execution of the mexicas, for whom there was no compassion. The atrocities that were committed, both by the spaniards and their native allies has not been fully documented, but it is very easy to infer. "It was when they burned Cuauhtemoctzin feet. When it was barely dawn they brought him, they tied him to a stick in the Ahuizotzin House at Acatliyacapan. There came the sword, he gun, owned by our masters. And they took out gold in Cuitlahuactonco, at the House of Itzpotonqui. And when they got it, again took our prince tied towards Coyoacán. It was on this occasion that the priest that kept Huitzilopochtli died. They had questioned him about the whereabouts of the god attire and those of the high priest of our Lord and the maximum incenser. Then they were informed that the attires were in Cuauhchichiloco, in Xaltocan; that were kept by some lords. They went there to get them. When they had the attires, two were hanged in the middle of the road of Mazatlan... There they hanged Macuilxóchitl, King of Huitzilopochco. And then the King of Cuhulacan, Pizotzin. Both were strangled. And the Tlacatécatl of Cuauhtitlan and the major of the black house, were eaten by dogs. Also, others from Xochiilco were eaten by dogs. And three Ehécatl sages, from Texcoco, were eaten by dogs.” ''(Anonymous Tlatelolco text. 1528). ''

Cortés ordered, stone by stone destruction of the city of Tenochtitlan, one of the largest and better developed at that time in the entire planet, so that from the remains, founding the New Spain capital.

This signified the destruction and denial of the defeated civilization, which was immediately banned and persecuted, and continues to the present day.