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In 1560, Standard Pedro de Ursua led an expedition through the Amazon . com in search of El Dorado. 90 days later, Ursua was murdered. His alternative, Fernando de Guzman, was also murdered. Growing from the chaos was the Biscayan Lope de Aguirre, who turned from El Dorado and led his men to Peru to overthrow the royal pushes and declare self-reliance from the Spanish Crown. When Aguirre was finally killed, the aftermath was amazing: hundreds deceased, entire cities depopulated, and a nascent trend quashed.Deliberately provocative, Evan Balkan's The Wrath of God examines Aguirre, symbolic of Basque fury and rampage, arguing that Aguirre's historical representation as a one-dimensional madman deserves revisiting. Indeed, Aguirre would be the Americas' first true ground-breaking, a view distributed by Simon Bolivar, among others. 2011 markings the 450th anniversary of one of the very most outstanding and least known occasions in the annals of the Americas, and Balkan's work offers a timely investigation into the revolutionary's life and controversial methods.

Category: Latin America