Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán

Nuño Guzmán de Beltrán or Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán (approximately 1490 - 1544) was a Spanish conquistador and dictator of the colonial Mexico. Born with Guadalajara, in Spain, Guzmán studied the Droit to the university. In 1528 Charles V appointed it president of the first Audiencia of the Nueva Galicia. It was known as irrational and arbitrary in its decisions compared to the Spaniards and cruel and brutal towards the Amerindian S. Juan de Zumárraga, archbishop of the News-Spain, excommunicated it in 1530 for these reasons.

Guzmán then assembled an army of 500 dissatisfied conquistadors and 10.000 Amerindians using illegal funds, and it conquered the Amerindian grounds of the north and the North-West of the current Mexico. It named these News-Galicia areas, establishes grounds for itself and its following, while it prevented with the Amerindians from having some, even for those which had helped it. Number among with were massacred or became slaves. Guzmán at that time accepted the nickname of “bloody Guzmán”. The colonists began in 1533 to complain near Antonio de Mendoza, the viceroy of News-Spain, in connection with his cruelty. Guzmán was stopped in 1536 and died in the darkness in Spain.

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