The biographer of Hernán Cortés: "The remains of the conqueror are at risk in Mexico and must return to Spain"

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The historian and biographer of Hernán Cortés, Esteban Mira Caballos, believes that the remains of the Extremaduran conqueror "are really at risk in Mexico", where his figure increasingly arouses more animosity, which is why, in his opinion, "the time has come" that the Spanish Government request his return so that they return to the land where he was born.

Esteban Mira (Carmona, Seville, 1966), doctor in American History, is the author of numerous books, the last of them

, with which he has tried to

.

In an interview with Efe, he remembers that the remains of Cortés were already moved and hidden by Lucas Alamán in the 19th century to prevent their desecration.

They

currently

, which he himself founded and which "five centuries later continues to function with its operating rooms and mobile uvis".

According to Mira, although very few people know that the remains are there, in the presbytery, where the burial goes unnoticed,

, this year, with the celebration of the fifth centenary of the fall of Tenochtitlan, access to the church has been controlled to avoid possible altercations.

Therefore, although the will of

, the land he loved so much, Professor Esteban Mira, who has been studying its historical figure for more than 30 years, maintains that it is time for the Spanish Government to ask for his return so that they may rest in peace in their

, as requested by their mayor, Valentín Pozo.

Hernán Cortés, a very important person in history

In his opinion, Cortés is so hated in Mexico because "

and the facts have been distorted, among other things because they claim that Spain conquered Mexico and speak in terms that are not real."

In that sense, he clarifies that "it must be taken into account that 99% of the hosts or troops that entered Tenochtitlan were Mesoamerican" and "the saying that the Indians conquered America and

is true.

Therefore, it is really an erroneous and interested interpretation of what happened. "

For Esteban Mira, "Hernán Cortés was a very important person in history who,

, so "we cannot hide or hide him."

Although "there were truly massacres and atrocities" in the conquest of Mexico, this expert makes it clear that "there was no genocide" because Cortés "wanted to govern a territory and needed labor."

Canvas of the portrait of Hernán Cortés in the Prado Museum THE WORLD

In his opinion, among historians around the world there are not so many differences when it comes to interpreting the historical figure of Hernán Cortés;

What happens "at the foot of the street" is very different, which can be seen as a genocide or as a liberator of the indigenous tribes subjected to the tyranny of the Aztecs or Mexica.

"I say that neither liberation nor genocide, that history usually moves in intermediate tones," he clarifies in this regard.

Author of biographies of other discoverers and conquerors, such as Francisco Pizarro, Hernando de Soto or Vasco Núñez de Balboa, this Andalusian professor who has lived in Extremadura for more than 26 years maintains that Hernán Cortés was "a very unique case", because he was a person cultured and "with a very broad vision" and he was

.

"He was aware that he was starring in an exceptional stage, that the world was changing and he was one of the few conquerors who was aware of this and tried to transmit it to future generations" with the

that he wrote to Emperor Charles V.

Claim History without complexes

Mira Caballos is blunt when it comes to stating that

"without any kind of complex" because that "laid the foundations for the globalization of the world."

He acknowledges that the Franco regime, with its exaltation, caused a "rebound effect" that makes Spanish democracy remain at the other extreme, being "ashamed of those great conquerors and sailors who laid the foundations of a global world that we have today."

"History must be accepted; it is not how we would have wanted it to be, but how it was,"

insists Mira, who points out that "there were truly atrocities, as they have happened over thousands of years", but urges "to stay, not with the destruction of the pre-Hispanic world, but with the creation of the mestizo America that we all love and admire. "

In this sense, it also specifies that although it is clear that in the conquest and colonization of America there was a destruction of culture,

, as in the Lesser Antilles, which were declared useless islands by the Spaniards or in the Honduran Mosquitia, where Fernando VI declared that all the Indians there should be exterminated, although the measure was never completed.

In that sense, he understands that Pope Francis and his predecessors, Benedict XVI and John Paul II, have asked forgiveness, as vicars of God on earth, for that ethnocide, but he believes that it is something that cannot be asked of the Spanish. , as claimed by the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, because

.

As a historian, he sees no sense in "starting a whirlwind of apologies, where the Tunisians apologize to us for the Carthaginian conquest of the Iberian Peninsula or the Spanish to the French for having captured Francisco I in the Battle of Pavia ".

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