LA GRAN MENTIRA!! ¦ La Leyenda Negra de España.

There was a moment when Spain no longer spoke about its achievements Only what others said about it was heard And that was no coincidence It was a very well orchestrated plan It was called The Black Legend A story written beyond our borders To justify wars rebellions and conquests Everything began in the 16th century Spain dominated half the world America Flanders Italy And that was annoying A lot So the stories began Drawings showing bonfires with hundreds of people Stories that exaggerated everything Stories written by political enemies And accepted as truth for centuries Who started it all A Spanish friar Bartolomé de las Casas He wanted to defend the indigenous people But his writings were used by Spain's enemies To portray her as a monster England Holland France Everyone copied her speech They translated it They multiplied it They modified it And they used it as ammunition A pamphlet could cross half of Europe and do more damage than an entire fleet What was the result An imagination that still survives today That Spain was brutal That the Inquisition was a baptism of fire That in America there was only destruction But the real story is different The Spanish Inquisition had fewer victims than the English or the Protestant ones in Germany It was one of the few empires that legislated in defense of indigenous people since the 16th century It had laws that on paper They protected more than in other European empires Were there excesses Of course But not more than in the rest of the powers And certainly not as they painted it Why isn't there talk about the English massacres in Ireland Or the French in Algeria Or the Belgians in the Congo Because that did not create a legend Only silence Spain was the only power judged by its enemies with a magnifying glass And with fire And the worst was not the lie It was that the very Spain believed the legend Even today we continue to repeat those stories as if they were an absolute truth But we are no longer in the 16th century It is time to look at history with open eyes The black legend is not memory It is propaganda Empty marketing fueled by rusted envy And you decide whether to keep believing or to wake up