The gold that Hernán Cortés could not take.
There is nothing like looking back to understand the present and that is what Iker Jiménez intends in this installment, featuring the testimony of the author of the book ‘Everyone will know my name’, where the journalist and writer delves deeply into the motivations behind the black legend by Hernán Cortés.
Was Hernán Cortés a God or was he a Devil? “Depending on who you talk to,” responds Tony Gratacós, who is clear that everyone is known by their actions. The writer says that Hernán Cortés “ended up winning over” the so-called indigenous people, but that the death of Montezuma caused the flight of the Spanish.
It wasn’t easy to get out of there and they did it with a tesoro. Apparently, Hernán Cortés was collecting oro and some pieces he melted down to make gold ingots. He accumulated 300 kilos of gold. Legend says that, that night, the gold fell into the lagoon during the escape. But is this real or a myth?
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