Odyssey Smoke and Mirrors

[trinidad]

Jeff, you're probably right when you say that Spain didn't compensated the merchants. I went back to an article from Calero and, in an incredible exercise of misinformation, he is able of suck and whistle at the same time. In an article from October 13, 2008, he writes down on the headline that Spain did compensated the merchants. If you keep reading that article, you finally see that it wasn't like that. Spain required to the descendants of the owners of some good aboard La Mercedes, twenty years after the tragedy, a lot of papers they couldn't reunite and then theirs claims weren't attended. Calero even name the case of Faustino del Campo, who lost 100.000 reales de vellón and which reclamation (and others reclamations) was never attended. So, as far as I understand from this article, based on an investigation of a lawyer, Spain didn't pay anything to the privateers of La Mercedes. By the way, the lawyer's name is Jose María Lancho, who supported a legal accusation from an spanish company named Nerea against Odyssey for archaeological spoliation on spanish waters”. We are still waiting for proves about that.

 

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