The Valladolid Controversy

In the middle of the 16th century, and for the first time in history, an empire questioned in depth where its own rights, those of the victor, ended and where the rights of others, those of the vanquished, began. Bartolomé de las Casas and Ginés de Sepúlveda defend two historically antagonistic positions and debate about the natural rights of the Native Americans. Almost 500 years later, a small group of experts analyze what is considered to be the first debate in history on human rights.