Summary Of Bartolome De Las Casas

The violent culture of Latin-America is based off a number of factors, but it would be difficult to look past the influence of the Spaniards and their colonization of Latin-America and assume that this had no influence on its violent nature. In Bartolomé De Las Casas’ ‘A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies’, one manages to look into the dark past of Latin-American Culture and gains the ability to summarize Spain’s method of colonization as ‘brutal and inhumane’. A full text analysis of De Las Casas’ work is unnecessary to comprehend the importance of Liberal/Libertarian principles in a society, in particular the principles of self-ownership and private property, but in order to better understand the necessity of these principles