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PERU COULD CLAIM TREASURE
(Peru.com: 2007/11/21) Peru could claim a treasure valued at 500 million dollars found in a nineteenth century Spanish galleon, the plaintiff presented as additional court in the dispute argue that the government of Spain and the company American cazatesoros Odyssey Marine Exploration.
It is a cargo of 17 tons of gold and silver coins from the colonial era that found the American company last May and took his country on a plane that left Gibraltar.
Since then there is a legal dispute in which Madrid Odyssey Marine accused of having plundered a treasure that belongs to Spain, since according to the government ibérico- both the boat as the waters where it was sunk are Spaniards.
However, some research indicates that the galleon sunk in his cellar might contain gold coin minted in Peru when this country was under Spanish rule.
It is there when the case could be complicated further if the applicant Peru decide to stand as additional treasury under the provenance of precious metals. According to historians, the galleon Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, sunk by a British ship near the coast of Portugal in 1804, sailed from Peru due to Cadiz in March that year, loaded with the disputed treasure.
But when he consulted the Minister of Culture of Spain, Cesar Antonio Molina, Peru would have the right to claim part of the treasure containing the galleon sunk underwater supposedly on Spanish soil, his response was blunt and forceful: "That boat has flag Spain and Peru at the time belonged to Spain. "
Despite his tough response to air colonizadorores, the minister seemed unaware that the Iberian Peru, if they so wish, can claim moral grounds to demand their participation in the distribution of wealth, as a writer explains the 'New York Times' quoted the daily 'The Trade'. "Peru could build a case based on moral considerations: The Incas did not deliver the gold and silver to the invading Spaniards voluntarily. Spaniards took it by force," says the article.
(Peru.com: 2007/11/21) Peru could claim a treasure valued at 500 million dollars found in a nineteenth century Spanish galleon, the plaintiff presented as additional court in the dispute argue that the government of Spain and the company American cazatesoros Odyssey Marine Exploration.
It is a cargo of 17 tons of gold and silver coins from the colonial era that found the American company last May and took his country on a plane that left Gibraltar.
Since then there is a legal dispute in which Madrid Odyssey Marine accused of having plundered a treasure that belongs to Spain, since according to the government ibérico- both the boat as the waters where it was sunk are Spaniards.
However, some research indicates that the galleon sunk in his cellar might contain gold coin minted in Peru when this country was under Spanish rule.
It is there when the case could be complicated further if the applicant Peru decide to stand as additional treasury under the provenance of precious metals. According to historians, the galleon Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, sunk by a British ship near the coast of Portugal in 1804, sailed from Peru due to Cadiz in March that year, loaded with the disputed treasure.
But when he consulted the Minister of Culture of Spain, Cesar Antonio Molina, Peru would have the right to claim part of the treasure containing the galleon sunk underwater supposedly on Spanish soil, his response was blunt and forceful: "That boat has flag Spain and Peru at the time belonged to Spain. "
Despite his tough response to air colonizadorores, the minister seemed unaware that the Iberian Peru, if they so wish, can claim moral grounds to demand their participation in the distribution of wealth, as a writer explains the 'New York Times' quoted the daily 'The Trade'. "Peru could build a case based on moral considerations: The Incas did not deliver the gold and silver to the invading Spaniards voluntarily. Spaniards took it by force," says the article.
