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What do you mean by science-washing? Are you implying that the Spanish intentionally killed 60 to 95% of indigenous Americans?

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In Uruguay it was closer to 98%, when the indigenous people didn't want to conform with property rights, the order was given to wipe them out.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanza_del_Salsipuedes (There's no English article unfortunately)

That was after the Spanish authorities were kicked out of that region. The New Laws and Laws of the Indies, which had been in place for nearly three centuries by then, forbade such actions.

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