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Organized aggression and conquest have always provided violent men with an opportunity to commit atrocities, and this applies to the Spanish Conquest of the Americas. In Peru, two names overshadow all acts of violence by reason of exceptional, systematic, continuous and paranoic expressions of evil: Lope de Aguirre and Francisco de Carvajal. Aguirre’s crimes appalled his tough contemporaries, and inspired writers and writers and filmmakers of later generations. (Werner Herzog’s 1973 cinematographic classic Wrath of God is based on his life.) Francisco de Carvajal, in four short years, left a trail of atrocities, murders, corruption and robberies that earned him the name “Demon of the Andes.” In Bogot, Juan Rodrguez Freyle set down a chronicle of lawlessness, greed, murder, passions, intrigue, and corruption and the often criminal behavior of the guardians of the law and judicial inspectors. Throughout this volume, the translator has chosen to let the eyewitnesses and secondary sources tell the stories.
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