Comment by melenaboija

> the mines are notorious for claiming the lives of roughly 8 million enslaved indigenous South Americans and Africans over a 300-year period

As Spaniard this is disgusting to me and I don’t understand how talking about this still raises anger and some weird historic justifications.

Wether we like it or not these are the pillars of the western world and why today we have privileges over most of the planet.