Recorded Wednesday, November 27, 2019 in Santa Monica, by William C. Purdy, Ph.D., with introduction by Kier Purdy. 

This is background context for our mock trial of Cortes and La Malinche (Dona Marina) for the murder of Cuahtehmoc, last Emperor of the Aztecs. The episode also discuss Columbus's four voyages and the impacts of the Encounter on the Indigenous peoples of Central and South America.