he Spanish Royal Crown was separated from the New World by an ocean’s distance and could not oversee all that they wanted. While occasionally the royal viceroys were able to emulate the wishes of the Crown (regarding the New Laws) there was a growing independence of the peninsulars, and creoles. In areas such as Peru, which was essentially an isolated colony, the Indians were subject to cruel masters whose ambitions could only be fufilled by exploiting their services. It was not that the Spanish were evil, yet they held no regard for a culture that they obviously never truly cared to recognize. It was the Indian labor that mattered to the Spanish and as the New World expanded in commercial value as well as Spanish distribution of settlers the Indian situation did not progress. Perhaps the Indians’ culture had to be reformed to be “civil” yet they did not have to be dominated and abused by the Spanish. If spreading Christianity and preserving humanity was the goal of the Spanish then they failed miserably, but it is evident that they did have commercial success (as far as exporting precious metals from the New World). The New World offered the Spanish and the Indians a chance at future economic progress in Latin America but the benefit was mostly one-sided....
