However, some critics believe that the novels by Allende and Esquivel ignore the violence and genocide committed against indigenous peoples by the Spaniards. In its review of Isabel Allende’s Inés of My Soul, the Miami Herald noted that “there is not much from the other side of the conquista story beyond the Spaniards' view of them as savages”.
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