Thoughts and Tlateloloc

Thoughts

Instability of the South half of the Western Hemisphere is a cause of immigration issues.

There’s a difference between how the north half of the Western Hemisphere and the South half were settled. The United States and Canada had English common law. The south half was subject to the Spanish King and committees that were established.

“After the New World was discovered in 1492, King Ferdinand II of Spain established a governing board, which was remodeled by Charles V in 1524, providing for the exclusive management of the affairs of the Spanish colonies in the Americas. This board is known in history as the Supreme Council of the Indies. Theoretically, the King of Spain presided over the Council and all important acts were subject to his sanction and confirmation. The Spanish colonies in America were divided into four vice royalties, of which Mexico was one, and New Mexico was a part of Mexico. The three others were Peru, Rio de La Plata (Buenos Aires) and New Granada. There were in addition to the vice royalties, five captain generalships, for the government of Yucatan, Guatemala, Chile, Venezuela and Cuba. The captains general were independent of the viceroys, and the viceroys were independent of each other. Source: Maxwell Land Grant, 1942 by William A. Keleher

1948

The Constitution’s of the Americas (as of January 1, 1948) was published by the University of Chicago press – Chicago. It’s editor-in-chief was Russell H Fitzgibbon of the University of California at Los Angeles. The volume contains the first complete and accurate collection in the English language of the current constitutions of all 22 Western Hemisphere states.

1988

The Albuquerque Tribune Wednesday, November 30, 1988 INSIGHTS stated:” the continent marches to liberty”. The article then summarized political transitions in South America.

2020

Instability – Demonstrations - Cartels – Drugs – Migrations – Border Walls – Foreign Power Interventions

Tlatelolco

Virgil Elizondo in his Guadalupe, Mother of the New Creation stated at page 40:

Tlatelolco, the new center of religious power and learning, the natives were not at home; in fact, it was the place where “native home” was driven out of them in the name of God and civilization. He added a footnote of a personal experience supporting the statement.

Father Francisco Miranda Godinez in his essay Guadalupe and Los Remedios published in Religion as Art Guadalupe, Orishas and Sufi distinguished the Princedom of Tlatelolco from the Princedom of Tenochtitlan. He stated Tlatelolco’s original claim to fame lay in its prestigious market, a vivid description of which is to be found in Bernal Diaz Del Castillo. At page of Religion as Art p14:

Perhaps it was the commercial success of this market that lay behind the envy and hatred directed against Tlatelolco by Tenochtitlan. The legendary founder of Tlatelolco’s market was named Cuauhtlatoa (He who speaks like an eagle), and I suggest that this hero was meant to be called when, later on, a diminutive form of his name, Cuauhtlatoa-tzin, was proposed as the pre-Christian name of Tepeyac’s beloved Seer.

Herbert Howe Bancroft, Volume X, pages 402 – 409, wrote of the apparition:

… a grand and happy consummation, alike for church and state; so at least it was regarded until the state became jealous of the wealth and power of the church. At this time the church rejoiced for the millions thus brought into the fold, and the crown rejoiced for subjects thus reclaimed from savagism who were henceforth to add to its revenues.

Clearly Tlatelolco was a special place. Bancroft stated Juan Diego was proceeding to Tlatelolco to hear Mass and receive instruction when he heard Melodies and the rocks around were resplendent with prismatic hues.

At fn 60: There was a college at Tlatelolco where the Spanish language and the arts and sciences were taught.

Henry Bamford Parkes A History of Mexico at page 92:

The leading officials of New Spain devoted themselves vigorously to the development of education. The friars taught the Indians reading and writing and Christian doctrine.

Zumarraga organized the college at Tlatelolco for the higher education of the sons of caciques. The Indians at Tlatelolco learnt Latin and theology, and they made such rapid progress that within 10 years their teachers were able to turn the college over to the Indian alumni. There was a period when pureblood Indians were to be found teaching Latin to the sons of Spaniards. In Michoacan Bishop Vasco de Quiroga taught new handicrafts to the Indian villages and established schools and colleges, obliterating the bitter memories left among the Tarascans by Nuno de Guzman and leaving a reputation for benevolence and idealism which became legendary. Friars studied Indian antiquities and translated religious treatises into Indian languages; and Indian education bore fruit in a number of books, recording the traditions of the Indian races, which were written by persons of Indian descent.

Such labors were unpopular among the Spanish colonists, who did not wish to see the Indians become their equals.

At page 96:

The college at Tlatelolco degenerated into a primary school and then became extinct. The other Indian schools disappeared or were transformed into schools for creoles. The racial separation became stronger, and the Spaniards, whose bigotry had originally been religious rather than racial, maintained that color was a proof of inferiority. No Indian could enter the church or obtain an official post or become a lawyer or a physician.