Exploitation: The Spanish in Peru

The story of the Spanish in Peru is an anomalous combination of boldness and duplicity, of reckless courage-especially during the conquest phase-coupled with almost unexampled treachery. In the post-conquest period, there was a considerable disparity between theory and practice; between the ideology and the actual administration. Some of the conquerors evinced serious paternalistic concern while the majority maintained a regime of ruthless repression.