Hernán Cortés

500 years ago Spain came to Mexico and imposed, among many other issues, language, government and religion. What was Mexico before the arrival of the Spanish? Did Cortés destroy a wonderful civilization? Why in the collective imagination is the conqueror considered a cruel military man? What would have happened if the Europeans had not reached America? In this book, Antonio Cordero analyzes all these questions directly. Distinguishing between "nation" and "country", Cordero affirms that La Malinche, Cortés's companion, is the most important woman that America has given. That the taking of Tenochtitlán meant a liberation of the indigenous peoples from the Mexican yoke and that Cortés himself was the one who gave the starting signal for Mexican nationality. The reasons for the greatness of the conqueror and also for his loss of prestige, the virtues, the defects ... but above all, the consequences of forgetting him. What are the positive aspects of any conquest, the subsequent cultural exchange and the benefits of racial and cultural miscegenation. For the author, Mexico is Spain, although he is not aware of it. Ignorance of the above has a price today, and the country is paying it.