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Their iconic images are sold as kitsch - dolls of Sub-Commander Marcos on horseback, or T-shirts emblazoned with Mayan eyes peering through ski masks - to the Zapa-tourists who have turned San Cristóbal de las Casas into what one of my students calls a "hippie Disneyland".
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Spain In Gaudix, in the province of Granada, some 10,000 people still live in underground houses (casas cuevas) tucked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
The Apologetic Summary History of the People of These Indies (Spanish Apologética historia summaria de las gentes destas Indias) was first written as the 68th chapter of the General History of the Indies, but Las Casas changed it into a volume of its own, recognizing that the material was not historical.
Book into the Hostal Florida, one of the most beautiful casas in Cuba.
Choose from three apartments set in the hillside, or two "casas" in the three-storey house.
Also in 1536, before venturing into Tuzulutlan, Las Casas went to Oaxaca, Mexico, to participate in a series of discussions and debates among the bishops of the Dominican and Franciscan orders.
The popular Hostal Peregrino (doubles from £26, breakfast £3, hostalperegrino.com) is no exception and, being full, the owners Elsa and Julio Roque booked us into one of their casas particulares.
A sympathetic entry from the 1917 Catholic Encylopedia teases out the contradictions well: The charge often made against Las Casas, that he introduced negro slavery into the New World, is unjust.
More shocking, and more important, the bank was sanctioned for failing to apply the proper anti-laundering strictures to the transfer of $378.4bn – a sum equivalent to one-third of Mexico's gross national product – into dollar accounts from so-called casas de cambio (CDCs) in Mexico, currency exchange houses with which the bank did business.
Individual fecal samples were taken also from 121 swine (67 in Bartolo and 54 in Casas Viejas, age range 2 12 months) and combined into 22 pools (13 in Bartolo and 9 in Casas Viejas).
(Using pack hounds to rip the natives apart was, las Casas wrote, an innovation "thought up, invented, and put into effect by the Devil").
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