Fray Martín de Murúa was a Mercedarian religious who lived between 1566 and 1615. He was the author of two illustrated manuscripts that he dreamed of publishing one day, a wish that he could not achieve, since he died before the King of Spain gave him the authorization. In fact, it was not until the
We have once said that the history of Peru must be rewritten. Because there are facts omitted, misrepresented or simply forgotten, which deserve to be reconsidered. One of them is the case of Tangarará, the first city founded by the Spanish in South America, although in school and in history books i
Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1931- ) is a Brazilian sociologist, university professor, politician and writer. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance. He was president of Brazil for two terms, from 1995 to 2002. He consolidated the Real Plan, established constitutional reforms, pr
The new chronicle and good government, by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, could not fulfill the purposes for which the author did it, but, over time, it became the most important graphic document on the life and the customs of the colonial era.The Indians:vassals of the new owners of the Andean world I