A councilor from Madrid revives the debate about the role that the Spanish played after the conquest. Marta Rivera de la Cruz says that in the New World there was no plundering nor was colonialism detected in the museums Spaniards.
The discrepancies about what happened in the Spanish conquest and the viceroyalty in the Americas are beginning to be as recurrent as the discussion about potato omelette. “Looting? Of course, there is multiple evidence in the archives and in published books,” says María Castañeda de la Paz.