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Dorothy Healey, 91; Lifelong Communist Fought for Working People (Los Angeles Times August 8, 2006)
The evidence has been found in a previously lost report drawn up at the time for the Spanish monarchs as they became worried by growing rumours of Columbus' barbarity and avarice. The document was written by a member of an order of religious knights, the Order of Calatrava, who had been asked to investigate the allegations against Columbus by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, who ruled Spain together at the time.The report, by Francisco de Bobadilla, lay undiscovered in a state archive in the Spanish city of Valladolid until last year. Bobadilla had already been named governor of the Indies, replacing Columbus, at the time of the report.
Was it faxed from Kinko's?
Columbus and his brothers were forced to travel back to Spain. Columbus was in chains but, although he never recovered his titles, he was set free and allowed to sail back to the Caribbean."Columbus and his brothers come across in the text as tyrants," Ms Varela said. "Now one can understand why he was sacked and we can see that there were good reasons for doing so.
Now if only we could see John F. Kerry's military record. He confessed to war crimes. Was his discharge less than honorable?
This "discovery" is nearly a year old. Why is it suddenly written like it's a current event? So Columbus behaved like most other spanish explorers/conquistadors. Next were gonna here that Columbus was a 14th/15th century Stalin.
News flash -- the fact that Columbus was removed as governor and hauled to Spain in chains isn't a news flash. This latest find just fills in a blank regarding the reason for his removal. Previously known letters from him to the Spanish crown reveal his interest in enslaving the local population and use that to sell Spain on colonization.
