Such are the conditions in which Hernán Cortés Arrives to the coast of Quintana Roo in 1519, with 11 ships, 553 adventurers and 110 sailors, plus about one hundred of blacks and carib indigenous people. He had left Cuba as a fugitive of the law, as the governor of the island, Diego Velázquez, learned of the betrayal plans of the brand new captain, and gave orders to arrest Cortés, but he left ahead of his scheduled departure to avoid being arrested and imprisoned.
This is the reason why, in the proximity of a mutiny in the expedition and anchored off the coast of Veracruz, those who did not want Cortés as captain, called for the expedition to return to Cuba and deliver Cortés prisoner, for the governor Velasquez to assign another captain. Hernán Cortés ordered drilling holes and not burning the ships to avoid a fight between the spaniards and his likely imprisonment.
"Raised in arms" in fact with the navy, but recognizing in his letters his public and private duties towards Diego Velázquez, Cortés left the island of Cuba. On the coast of Veracruz, before the military penetration to the New Spain, with a frank rupture, gained legal features. Cortés had undertaken numerous rescue operations; the Velazquez faction was satisfied and fearful of the large number of indians calling for the return to Cuba; Don Hernando and proletarians soldiers, incited by the wealth, wanted, on the other hand, entering their pacification campaign and conquest of the land (plunder and looting A.N.). The return to Cuba could mean for the captain his execution as a rebel." (Silvio Zavala. 1991). [1]
Governor Velázquez, had managed to obtain the "concession to rescue gold" of what today is Mexico, which is to be understood as looting to avoid using euphemisms. It is important to mention that except for the first two Columbus trips, the invasion of America, was a
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- ↑ Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado (born February 7, 1909) is a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions. Born in Mérida, Yucatán, he studied at the National University of Mexico and at the University of Madrid, obtaining a Ph.D. in law from the latter. He began his professional career in Spain in the Center for Historic Studies in Madrid.
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