Carlos Ometotzin was an alcohua noble of the city of Texcoco (now just part of mexico city) that was arrested by Juan de Zumarraga (first bishop of mexico) after he was denounced by another indian nobleman called Chiconautla for trying to usurp the position of tlatoani via forcefull marriage with maria the widow of Pablo Xochiquentzin.After his arrest he insulted Christianity and mocked how the spanish were allowed to take concubines and become publicly drunk whereas indians were still punished for this like before the conquest. Juan de Zumarraga burnt him at the stake for "dogmatism", that is, the promotion of pagan ideals. This became a scandal within spanish society because Juan had neither the authority nor the support of the inquisition, wich ruled that all american christians were neophytes and therfore could not be prosecuted for not understand a religion that hadn't been taught to them. Juan would spent the rest of his life bickering with the inquistor Francisco Tello de Sandoval attempting to postpone the " new laws of 1542" wich outlawed the enslavement of indians and more crucially denied the hereditary ownership of encomiendas by the conquistadors.This back and forth struggle between amerindian nobles who wanted to maintain their political system, the spanish crown who wished to limit the excesses of the spanish conquerors and the spanish soldiers who wanted to become feudal warlords of the region is often used by modern hispanist figures to argue the conquest was a benign as opposed to british racism and that the viceroyalties were cultural and social parts of spain as much as aragon or castille
>>18510534Having endless political debates like faggots doesn't absolve the Spanish Crown of being evil, if they truly wanted to do good and stop the abuses they would have sent an army to arrest the administration killing and slaving indios left and right, but they didn't.This is similar to Palestine or ukraine, who fucking cares if you pay lip service to them (as a government I mean, I know civilians don't have the power to do anything). As long as those governments don't actually send troops to help the innocent or at least stop trading with the evil bastards, they are all complicit in genocide
>>18510540What is curious to me is that in these early stages you can see the primordial forms of the social conflict that would continue in mexico up untill the revolution. A local aristocracy trying to entrench its religious and legal privileges, a group of educated elites trying to curb said aristocracy, and a mass of ruled indians and later mestizos supporting one or the other to improve its standing. Sometimes they would back the spanish crown, sometimes the conquistadors (whose successors would be the criollos), and sometimes just attempt to annihilate both like was seen in the early stages of the independence war
Maybe if he'd sacrificed a few more children he'd have gotten away with it.
>>18510534>After his arrest he insulted Christianity and mocked how the spanish were allowed to take concubines and become publicly drunk whereas indians were still punished for this like before the conquestlol cuck
