[PGR88]

that the Spanish empire had plundered from South America,

Typical leftist twaddle.

They didn't plunder it. It was locked in rocks in the ground before they arrived. They created it.

[x]

Well, there was that room that Pizarro ordered the Incas to fill up with gold, and if gold was later dug up by enslaved Indians (as it was) to take back to Spain, the Spanish could be said to have plundered it.

[Wilhelm Tell]

“You didn’t build that!” - Barack Obama

[larrytown]

They didn't plunder it. It was locked in rocks in the ground before they arrived. They created it.

Well, there is the fact they they used native slave labor to extract it, so some discussion of fair compensation might be valid, but the time interval makes it difficult to determine, at best.

Frankly might just be best to leave sleeping dogs lie, and dump a few thousand square meters of crushed concrete on it.

[DiogenesLamp]

They didn't plunder it. It was locked in rocks in the ground before they arrived. They created it.

They enslaved the local populations and forced them to mine it. They treated them horribly including pouring molten lead down their throats to make examples of them.

The Spanish brutality was exceptional in world history, and perhaps not rivaled by any but the Muslims or the Nazis.

They murdered millions, many by simply working them to death. They whipped, beat and executed any of them who couldn't work or refused to work.

Every bit of that Spanish gold is soaked in blood on a scale modern Americans can scarcely comprehend.

Other Freepers who know more about this, tell me if i'm wrong.