LOL! Good point.
You could have just said Venezuelans are descended from the Spanish. They're a pop-culture icon for their evil atrocities, the Spanish Inquisition and all that.
That’s what I meant to say! That’s the ticket. It was on the tip of my tongue.
One need only view the news shows for Univison and see how much bloodier the telecasts are. There is something endemic in the Spanish culture in that hemisphere that rationalizes or accepts this type of warfare.