The Washington Post, July 12th, 1991
COLUMBUS WAS not exactly Mr. Nice Guy, but he looks like a saint compared to Francisco Pizarro, one of the savage Spanish conquerors who followed the Admiral of the Ocean Sea to the so-called New World. Barely 40 years after Columbus's first landfall in the Americas, Pizarro and his little band of butchers attacked and destroyed the great Inca empire, which embraced the headwaters of the Amazon and Paraguay rivers and thousands of miles of the Pacific coast of South America. The destruction was so treacherous, purposeful and thorough that only bare shreds of this ancient culture survived. To m...
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