May
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/ 2021
In September 2020, a trio of scholars based in Mexico and Spain managed to stop the sale of a valuable historical document that had been stolen from the National Archives of Mexico (AGN), Mexico News Daily reports. The manuscript in question was a letter written in 1521 to the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, sent by allies back in the mother country. The letter alerted Cortés to palace intrigue initiated by his enemies. It warned him to avoid seeing a royal emissary dispatched by the Spanish crown, who planned to strip him of any administrative powers he’d assumed in the lands he’d seized from the Aztecs. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"86181","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"700","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"548"}}]] Portrait of Hernán Cortés. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) A Bigger Issue Revealed by
