Odysseys.(View from the South)

From: New Internationalist | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Galeano's, Eduardo | Copyright information

The History We Never Learned

Christopher Columbus couldn't discover America because he didn't have a visa or even a passport.

Pedro Alvares Cabral couldn't get off the boat in Brazil because he might have been carrying smallpox, measles, the flu or other plagues the country had never known.

Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro never even began the conquest of Mexico and Peru because they didn't have green cards.

Pedro de Alvarado was turn...

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