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Hernan Cortez

Cortez (a Hispanic) was the monstrous leader of the Spaniards.
He planned the destruction of our civilization, the genocide of our people, and the slavery of our people to interests and well-being of the people of Europe and their descendants amongst us.
Massacre in the Main Temple

During this time, the people asked Motecuhzoma how they should celebrate their god's fiesta. He said: "Dress him in all his finery, in all his sacred ornaments."


During this same time, The Sun commanded that Motecuhzoma and Itzcohuatzin, the military chief of Tlatelolco, be made prisoners. The Spaniards hanged a chief from Acolhuacan named Nezahualquentzin. They also murdered the king of Nauhtla, Cohualpopocatzin, by wounding him with arrows and then burning him alive.


For this reason, our warriors were on guard at the Eagle Gate. The sentries from Tenochtitlan stood at one side of the gate, and the sentries from Tlatelolco at the other. But messengers came to tell them to dress the figure of Huitzilopochtli. They left their posts and went to dress him in his sacred finery: his ornaments and his paper clothing.


When this had been done, the celebrants began to sing their songs. That is how they celebrated the first day of the fiesta. On the second day they began to sing again, but without warning they were all put to death. The dancers and singers were completely unarmed. They brought only their embroidered cloaks, their turquoises, their lip plugs, their necklaces, their clusters of heron feathers, their trinkets made of deer hooves. Those who played the drums, the old men, had brought their gourds of snuff and their timbrels.


The Spaniards attacked the musicians first, slashing at their hands and faces until they had killed all of them. The singers-and even the spectators- were also killed. This slaughter in the Sacred Patio went on for three hours. Then the Spaniards burst into the rooms of the temple to kill the others: those who were carrying water, or bringing fodder for the horses, or grinding meal, or sweeping, or standing watch over this work.

The king Motecuhzoma, who was accompanied by Itzcohuatzin and by those who had brought food for the Spaniards, protested: "Our lords, that is enough! What are you doing? These people are not carrying shields or macanas. Our lords, they are completely unarmed!"


The Sun had treacherously murdered our people on the twentieth day after the captain left for the coast. We allowed the Captain to return to the city in peace. But on the following day we attacked him with all our might, and that was the beginning of the war

The Spaniards came to steal from us.

They had already killed 10 million people in the Caribbean. They had stolen their land and wealth. They came and enslaved our people so that we would work the mines to give the gold and silver that they were too lazy to work or trade for. These are a historically very dishonest, unethical, opportunistic, and very parasitic people. If your think this last statement is an exaggeration read their own journals and history books (from our point of view) and you will see what monsters they have been.


They stole our land.

They claimed the right to our land. That thief's claim is what keeps our land from us today. When we can learn to assert our rights to our land, and when we have the courage to call the thief a "thief" and the racist murderers "racist murderers" (through education), only then will we be able to see the reality of our situation and the realistic solutions to all of our problems

They burned our cities.


This was so that we would have not even our own cities to be proud of. But the ruins are all over Mexico. Even sites of civilizations that had long been abandoned before the arrival of the Mexica into the valley of Mexico are to be seen from the Four Corners area into Central America.


They destroyed our libraries.

This was done so that we would have no history, no pride of accomplishment. But some of our libraries survived into the 20th century. Check our bibliography section to see some of the books that were written from those sources.


They killed our unarmed teachers, leaders, generals, priests, and best warriors on the feast of Huitzilopochtli.

This demolished the false notion that Europeans were more civilized or that they were superior to us in any way. We need to rebuild that leadership that was lost. We need all of our people learning, teaching, leading and being examples to our youth.

www.mexica-movement.org