So glad I found your channel. Really enjoying your videos. These PR ones are pulling at my heart strings. I need to book a flight asap!

@JfCLA

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, Thanks! I have a couple more from PR I'm working on right now, so Fridays will be fun! +El Ynque, ziplining, etc :)

@JoChris

3 жыл бұрын

@@JfCLA great! I’ll look forward to it.

Part of this Spanish castle's fortress in Puerto Rico was destroyed to build new edifications but still the biggest and the oldest Spanish edifications in America continent.

@JfCLA

Жыл бұрын

Great info - thank you! I don't think they talked about that

Woww...

@JfCLA

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastico!

The military 100% still takes our pay for meals 😂. It just depends on where you are

@JfCLA

3 ай бұрын

They literally doc your pay for meals?

Oh well. that will be the last review then! Wouldn't like to try to defeat that fort!

@JfCLA

3 жыл бұрын

Walls 20-40 ft thick - almost as thick as my skill!

Iguanas are so cool

@JfCLA

3 жыл бұрын

Right? Just chillin' on the wall...

I think they had small feet?

@JfCLA

Жыл бұрын

Yes. The shoes were very small.

1492? Isn’t that the same year Columbus landed at another spot?

@JfCLA

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah - he "discovered" Puerto Rico, too!

@cjphantomcp6846

7 ай бұрын

@@JfCLAnop, 1493

Los extranjeros no pueden hablar de mi pais🙏🏼

@JfCLA

7 ай бұрын

I'm trying to make sense of your comment.

Perhaps the beginning of the works, when they were just a few small walls, were built, in part, with the forced labor of natives. But already in the same 16th century and onwards, it was built with specialized masons and stonemasons. Military works of this size and complexity are not built with slaves. In addition, already in 1530 in the territory of the Spanish empire the slavery of the native Americans was abolished, with which if there was any native worker it had to be as a paid free man, not a slave. Although I doubt very much that he knew anything about masonry. All the best.

@JfCLA

Жыл бұрын

First off, thanks for the view & comment - I appreciate them both...Source for that info? The fort's own website and signage states that slaves were used. They also used forced labor of natives to build the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, which dates to 1565, well after 1530.

@JfCLA

Жыл бұрын

And there are clear mistakes in the Castillo in St. Augustine that can be seen by the naked eye that seem to suggest non-specialists were involved.

@pulsarplay5808

Жыл бұрын

@@JfCLA The Indians could not be enslaved and it is not my personal opinion, but an easily verifiable historical question whose information is available on the internet. First by Royal Edict of the year 1530 by King Carlos V and later endorsed and its protection extended by the Leyes Nuevas of the year 1542. www.historiadelderecho.net.ar/PDF/1542-Leyes_Nuevas.pdf Therefore, and taking into account that this fortress was a public work of the crown, built with crown funds and supervised by crown officials, it does not seem reasonable to me that you would prefer to believe a tourist information sign than all the documentation official and historical available. Nor is it a sufficient argument that you say that there are errors in the construction, I don't know what those errors are, to justify that this assumes that there was slave labor for that reason. Construction errors and collapses of structures have been occurring for decades now despite the fact that they are built by architects, engineers and masons, all of whom are professional and trained personnel. That argument by itself makes no sense. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Maze

@JfCLA

Жыл бұрын

The fort was built using African slaves and forced labor of natives, and I haven’t found anything that contradicts that. Your claim that only specialized masons built it does not seem to be correct, as several sources say slaves worked on it. Including the NPS site.www.worldatlas.com/articles/el-morro-fortress-puerto-rico-unique-places-around-the-world.html

@JfCLA

Жыл бұрын

@@pulsarplay5808 www.worldatlas.com/articles/el-morro-fortress-puerto-rico-unique-places-around-the-world.html