What specific abuses of power do cakchiquel scribes focus on

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The Cakchiquel Maya account of the Spanish Conquest (Document 4-The Cakchiquel Maya Annals of Xahila's Account of the Arrival of the Castilians at Xetulul-1550) offers us the Cakchiquel Maya point of view of the invasion. It also offers us a chronicle of the many abuses of power, violence and brutality of the Adelantado Don Pedro de Alvarado. What specific abuses of power do the Cakchiquel scribes focus on? How did they see Alvarado's demands and treatment of their people as unjust? Do you believe that the Cakchiquel account is a truthful account of Alvarado's transgressions?

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