Pizarro captured the last Incan emperor Atahualpa in 1532, charged him with various crimes and executed him in 1533. The statue of Francisco Pizarro, who came to ‘steal, bring diseases ...

In 1780, as the once-great Inca empire’s Indigenous peoples were forced to labor for the Spanish crown, leader Túpac Amaru II ...

Sal Pizarro is a Bay Area News Group columnist who has written the Around Town column for The Mercury News since 2005. His column covers the people and events surrounding the cultural scene in ...

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The sculpture was unveiled during a ceremony marking the 490th anniversary of the city's founding. A statue of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro has been reinstalled in the centre of Lima ...

Hundreds of Oregonians gathered Wednesday in Portland and Salem to protest the Trump administration just over two weeks into the president’s second term.

A statue of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro has been reinstalled in the centre of Lima, the capital of Peru, more than 20 years after it had been removed. The sculpture was unveiled ...

He struck an SUV driven by Aileen Pizarro and occupied by her 12-year-old daughter Aryana. The fiery crash killed Aileen and Aryana Pizarro, as well as Heitmann. In January 2024, the city agreed ...