Chicago Tribune article about GTO

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The article neglected to say that how much, if not most, of the silver wealth mined here for 5 centuries was sent back to SPAIN by the conquistadores, and what was left for use here was mainly used to build over twenty huge and ornate Catholic churches in GTO, AND very large government buildings, architecturally replete with even bathrooms that have marble walls and floors. The poor children who were often the only MEXICANS small enough to descend into the bowels of the earth through tiny holes dug far below the surface to fetch elemental silver for the Church and Conquistadores, often died from extremely intense work and dehydration at a very young age.