Throughout history, there has always been a sort of controversy that has never been said out loud but have always been there.This pertains to when history is written and which account it should be drawn upon. Especially when a significant event has happened, and so when a side does not “win” at that event, they are then unfortunately left in the dust and forgotten by the way the manner of how that story is written. These perspectives, although will always follow the victorians shadow, until a light has been shined upon them. Gustavo Verdesio, claims in his preface, Colonialism Past and Present, Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America Today, that this statement is true and must be shined up to be considered a historical text, especially regarding the colonization of any country. Verdesio entirely argues, that when it comes to studying any colony (focusing in Latin America here), we must find a connection between the past and present, “... to establish a nexus between the “antiquities” we study and the current situation of the descendants of the human contingents who shared the colonial experience, between the colonial situations of the past and the colonial legacies of the present,”(1). He argues that the “colonial legacies” is a determining factor in how …show more content…
The book is written in a manner in which gives the reader insight of what he was thinking as he was writing this book. One could see that this book is meant to give light to the real and truthful perspective of what happened when the Spaniards came in 1519. One could argue, therefore, if this is what Gustavo Verdesio has been advocating for when he was writing his preface. When you look into the text analytically for Broken Spears, many things begin to appear as proof to what Verdesio has been