[CholeraJoe]

Revisionist history to make the Spanish look less like oppressive conquerors and more like liberators. Kinda like Janet Reno commenting on the Branch Davidians. “We burned them alive because children were being abused in the compound.”

[SunkenCiv]

It’s not revisionism, because the Spanish didn’t flay the kiddies alive and then drown them.

[muawiyah]

The Spanish served to repopulate a depopulated land. The oppression grew up in later centuries.

In fact, over in Venezuela they're trying to invent a brand new type ~ Coca-mocha we might call it. That's where your Presidente issues crazy orders, steals people's stuff, and chews coca leaf all the time.

[Hacksaw]

Revisionist history to make the Spanish look less like oppressive conquerors and more like liberators.

Yep - now we have lost the quaint practices of the South American indigenous peoples forever....

[Polybius]

Revisionist history to make the Spanish look less like oppressive conquerors and more like liberators.

The forensic evidence is the forensic evidence. The Mayans sacrificed men and young boys. Make of it what you will.

As far as "oppressive conquerors", all of our European ancestors in the Americas in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries were conquerers whether they be Spanish or English.

One point to be considered is that, in the Yucatan, a large portion of the population is still Mayan Indian. Most Mexicans are, genetically, mostly Indian. On the other hand, when was the last time you ever came face to face with an American Indian from Virginia or Delaware or Pennsylvania or Massachusetts?

The Spaniards may have oppressed the Mayans but they did not almost completely wipe them off the map like the English did to the Indians of the Eastern Seaboard.

Mystic River Massacre