Episode 13 - Juan is his Name

The integration of the colony in Puerto Rico into the Spanish Empire continued unabated despite the continued armed resistance of the Taíno population. Amidst the power struggles between different factions within the empire, the Spanish Crown attempted to impose its vision on the archipelago they called San Juan Bautista.

For more information on this topic, you can find the main references for the episode below:

• Historia general y natural de las Indias por Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: https://ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/etext/e026.html,

• La Colonización de Puerto Rico: https://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbpr.19425/?sp=2&st=slideshow,

• Fundación de San Juan en 1522: https://enciclopediapr.org/content/fundacion-san-juan/.

• Biblioteca histórica de Puerto-Rico: https://archive.org/details/bibliotecahistor00tapi .

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The image for this episode is, of course, the coat of arms of Puerto Rico, the version used in the 19th century as a province of Spain.