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The Spanish and Portuguese subjugated the indigenous populations of South America by crushing their empires, stealing their lands, forced them to work in the mines (for mountain-living natives) or on plantations (for plains/rainforest natives) for a pittance, and constructed a bureaucracy thoroughly designed to degrade and dehumanize them.

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