1536, Just Gold

Sebastián de Benalcázar while commanding the settlement of San Miguel,
                                    [set off to conquer the city of the Inca Empire Quito in Ecuador,
but while Belalcázar defeated their army, the local population
             [secreted the city treasure away. to the disappointment of the conquistador

In the village to vent his frustration at finding so little treasure
                                        [he ordered all the women and children to be slaughtered
and Belalcázar's feeble excuse... that this was done to terrify other natives,
                                                [was that court unconnected, independent, unrelated ?

Into present day Colombia, Belalcázar was in search of El Dorado
                  [a tribal chief who, as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust.
No ethical and good conscience man wants to face
                                                 [such people throughout his life...... but a judge must.
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to be continued

* ''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse'' 

Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis -CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS //

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Statue of Sebastián de Belalcázar in the 

Colombian city of Santiago de Cali 

 

* Sebastián de Belalcázar (1479/1480 – 1551) was a Spanish conquistador. De Belalcázar, also written as de Benalcázar, is known as the founder of important early colonial cities in the northwestern part of South America; Quito in 1534 and Cali, Pasto and Popayán in 1537. 

De Belalcázar led expeditions in present-day Ecuador and Colombia and died of natural causes after being sentenced to death in Cartagena, at the Caribbean coast in 1551. He was an encomendero in Panama in 1522. He entered Nicaragua with Francisco Hernández de Córdoba in 1524 during the conquest of Nicaragua and became the first mayor of the city of León in Nicaragua. 

He remained there until 1527, when he left for Honduras as a result of internal disputes among the Spanish governors. Briefly returning to León, he sailed to the coast of Peru, where he united with the expedition of Francisco Pizarro.

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