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The Last Conquistador [16] About： Ibarra's first hour-long PBS documentary, created with John Valadez, and had a national broadcast on POV. [17] Synopsis: In this episode shows us a famous sculptor John Houser. His dream is to build the world's tallest bronze equestrian statue for the city of El Paso, Texas. Dirty Laundry: A Homemade Telenovela
The statue was completed in early 2006, transported in pieces on flatbed trailers to El Paso during the summer, and installed in October. The controversy over the statue prior to its installation was the subject of the documentary film The Last Conquistador, presented in 2008 as part of PBS's P.O.V. television series. [43] [44]
The Last Conquistador, an hour-long PBS documentary produced by John Valadez and Cristina Ibarra, featuring the artist and the controversy surrounding Don Juan de Oñate was shown nationally on POVTV, July 15, 2008.
Juan de Oñate, is sometimes referred to as "the Last Conquistador", [55] expanded Spanish sovereignty over what is now New Mexico. [56] Like previous conquistadors, Oñate engaged in widespread abuses of the Indian population. [c] Shortly after founding Santa Fe, Oñate was recalled to Mexico City by the Spanish authorities. He was ...
Juan de Salcedo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxwan de salˈθeðo]; 1549 – 11 March, 1576) was a Spanish conquistador. He was the grandson of Spanish general Miguel López de Legazpi. Salcedo was one of the soldiers who accompanied the Spanish conquest to the Philippines in 1565.
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca [a] [b] (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
One of his sons, Juan de Oñate, married Isabel de Tolosa Cortes-Moctezuma, granddaughter of conquistador Hernán Cortés and greatgranddaughter of the last Aztec Emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin. Juan became an explorer of western North America and founder of the first Spanish settlement on the upper Rio Grande in the present U.S. state of New Mexico.
The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, also known as the Conquest of Peru, was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under conquistador Francisco Pizarro, along with his brothers in arms and their indigenous allies, captured the last Sapa Inca, Atahualpa, at the ...