"Zunzunegui, the Mexican historian against the Black Legend: Mexican historian...is highly critical, even of Bartolomé de las Casas...whom he calls a 'narcissistic liar'"
https://www.elmundo.es/papel/historias/2024/11/12/673249c2fc6c830e508b459e.html Zunzunegui, the Mexican historian against the Black Legend: "Spain was not an unfortunate country that had enslaved colonies: we were an empire" The academic defends the legacy of the Spanish empire on both sides of the Atlantic and is highly critical of the false myths that still persist: "Spain is our father country and America, our mother country," he says. 81 comments Jorge Benítez (Text) Bernardo Díaz (Photography) Updated Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 00:38 If Philip II had hired Juan Miguel Zunzunegui as press secretary, the Black Legend spread by England and the Netherlands against the Spanish Monarchy would have been quickly dispelled, and Spain would be more associated with a Christmas advertisement for El Almendro than with the Inquisition, the rape of Indigenous women, or the terror the Duke of Alba inspired in Flanders. This 49-year-old Mexican historian, who has thousands o...