Ignacio Veraguas, a student in the Spanish & Portuguese Program in the Johns Hopkins Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, will give a talk titled “The River Will Cry Out: Jesuit Politics and Mapuche Diplomacy, or The Spiritual Conquest Across the Biobío River (1612-26)” for the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies.
The so-called defensive war was an evangelization strategy, primarily promoted by the Jesuit Luis de Valdivia, which officially began at 1612 and ended in 1626. It proposed establishing the Biobío River as a geographical and political boundary between the Chilean Kingdom and Mapuche territory—an arrangement
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