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500 years later, Mexico still struggles with 'uneasy truths' about the Spanish conquest

As Mexico looks back on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, an award-winning filmmaker wants his fellow Mexicans and others to confront their national identity — and ...
Yahoo

500 years later, Mexico recalls but doesn't celebrate Spanish conquest

An ancient Aztec temple, foreground, and a Spanish colonial church, top center, stand amid modern buildings in the Plaza of Three Cultures in Mexico City. The plaza honors Indigenous Mexico, Spanish ...
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The battle over the colonial legacy in Mexico: 'Shadow theater for political gain'

Faced with a fiery debate between the glorious myth of the Conquest and anachronistic revisionism, historians are looking to ...
The Atlantic

A New History of the Conquest of Mexico

In which Las Casas’ Denunciations of the Popular Historians of that War are fully vindicated. By ROBERT ANDERSON WILSON, Counsellor at Law; Author of “Mexico and its Religion,” etc. Philadelphia: ...
Reading Eagle

Mexico City marks 500 years since conquest battle began

MEXICO CITY (AP) – There are two ways of remembering the Spanish siege of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital now known as Mexico City: as the painful birth of modern Mexico, or the start of centuries of ...
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Mexico builds replica Aztec temple to mark 500 years since Spanish conquest

Mexico is building a towering replica of the Templo Mayor, the Aztec civilisation's most sacred site, in the downtown of Mexico City to mark 500 years since the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital, ...
NBC News

Mexico City marks 500 years since conquest battle began

MEXICO CITY — There are two ways of remembering the Spanish siege of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital now known as Mexico City: as the painful birth of modern Mexico, or the start of centuries of ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

500 years later, Mexico recalls but doesn’t celebrate Spanish conquest

MEXICO CITYMEXICO CITY — In a country that takes great pride in its museums and monuments, the final resting place of one of Mexico’s signature historical figures is easy to miss. A simple red plaque ...