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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 1262101, member: 15062&quot;]The fact is that the Spanish took over large areas of Central America, slaughtered men, women and children, disrupted families and stole the natives&#039; treasures.&nbsp; They took the gold and silver artifacts, melted them down and created bullion and coinage from the loot.&nbsp; There are no orphans alive today resulting from these actions but 200+ years ago there were plenty.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t consider that Central american bullion and coinage to be &quot;blood money&quot; then you don&#039;t understand the definition.&nbsp; The fact that much of it was later lost in shipwrecks is not the point.&nbsp; The recovery of this treasure and subsequent profiteering in its sale is giving acceptance to the way it was collected in the first place.&nbsp; Ideally, it should be returned to the survivors of the civilizations from which it was taken.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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