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The Myth of Hernan Cortez

10/16/2018

For 499 years the myth of Hernan Cortez as the great conqueror of Mexico has been treated with kids gloves when it comes to applying any kind of scrutiny to the claim.

For some reason, people just seem completely satisfied with taking the words of a proven falsifier as hard facts. His letters are treated as official historical documents depicting actuality but which with a little deeper inspection can easily be seen as the fiction that they are.

Cortez was no military genius and conqueror, he was a literary genius (as a writer of fiction) and a usurper.

Watch me in the video below as I dismantle the myth of Cortez, the "Conqueror of Mexico."

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Gabriel Hugo is the author of Once Upon a Bad Hombre, the X Series, The Martian Ones, and The Fluid Chicano. He has collaborated with authors on several anthologies and his poetry has been featured in various literary publications. Gabriel is also the founder of The Raving Press, an independent publishing imprint in the Rio Grande Valley, publishing works primarily focused on issues affecting Chicanos and other minorities in the United States. He is also an actor, appearing in two films available on Amazon Prime Video. Gabriel Hugo lives in Mission, Texas with his two sons Hugo Kuahutemoc and Jose Moctezuma, a.k.a. “The Bro Team”

"History is the stories that we tell ourselves."
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