How so? What would Latin America look like today in the counterfactual scenario where the Spanish didn’t colonize it?
> How so?
Just speaking personally I have a pretty dim view of genocide and slavery.
This is an alt history story idea I've had rattling around in my head for years. It starts off in 1492 with a dejected Columbus complaining about Isabella and Ferdinand not seeing his vision.
Jump cut 300 years later to 1776, when Europeans first learn about the New World - when an Aztec galley lands in Cornwall.
Before anyone wastes their time, this is the same start of the other bad faith argument that the enslavement of Africans was for their own good and they were better off being slaves than being in Africa.