Spain's Reconquest of Mexico Through Deep Pocket Investments and High Fashion Clothing Lines
The New Conquistadores
By JOHN ROSS
When Christopher Columbus sailed out of the port of Huelva on Spain's Atlantic coast in 1492, heading east towards the Mysterious Orient to conquer new markets for his king and queen, the business of his mission was business, and, after accidentally bumping into the New World en route, Columbus and his bosses did exactly what any average avaricious businessperson would do - they set up shop on American shores, stole the gold, slaughtered the Indians, and converted those who remained to the Spaniards' brand of God.

By 1519, on the Good Friday morning that Hernan Cortez dropped anchor off Veracruz, that business had flourished into an empire. Cortez, a private entrepreneur, set out to conquer Mexico in a prototypical hostile takeover. His weapons were the Cross and the Cannon and the Plague, his horses, bristly beards, and clunky suits of armor - and the treachery of those native peoples who had grown disaffected with Aztec domination, and, in the end, he toppled Moctezuma's dynasty, took over the franchise, and re-named the place, what else? New Spain.

500 years down history's highway, the Conquistadores have returned to the New World. From Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego, the "Reconquista" is in full swing:

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