conquistador

The FBI has returned a 500-year-old stolen document signed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico.

That has been true since the vision of a land of gold — El Dorado — drew the Spanish conquistadors to these shores.

For years, Indigenous activists and others staged protests at the statue, labeling Columbus and other conquistadores as perpetrators of genocide.

López Obrador, an avid amateur historian, said he has been working on his latest book, a study of Mexico before the 16th century arrival of Spanish conquistadores.

When the Spanish conquistadors arrived they were suspicious at first, and the Catholic Church declared coca to be the work of the devil.