[–] nan_ren 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
The claim as I understand it is that there were 8 million people populating that island when Columbus got there. How many Spanish troops could he possibly have brought back with him? Perhaps 1000? If they were doing things like chopping up babies, there's no way the population wouldn't have fought back and wiped them out.
I don't doubt that the Spanish were nasty people in that region, but the more extreme stuff reads like propaganda.