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ory, November 8, 1519, in Mexico, Montezuma meets with Hernando Cortez for the first time. In a gesture of good will they agree that they will allow Cortez’ Taco Bell’s and Montezumas Del Taco’s to co-exist peacefully in the same Aztec cities. They could not however reach an agreement on a great recipe for a Chalupa Supreme, or non-competitive drive-through hours.
Today in Heritage History 
Will will find THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO by Bernal Diaz de la Castilla a fascinating read . He was a young infantryman with Cortez’s expedition 1519-21. He wrote the book some 30 or 40 years later as a retired conquistador living home in Spain. The myth of the native American’s of Central America and Caribbean as being an idyllic paradise is shown as false as these peoples were the most monstrous of cannibals. Reveals why Spaniards would consider them subhuman and minions of Satan.