Las Casas

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Consider Bartolomé de las Casas, the Dominican friar born in 1484 who described Christopher Columbus as a genocidal monster, or Michel de Montaigne, who wrote in the 1580s that even Indigenous people who practiced ritual cannibalism weren’t as evil or corrupt as the Europeans who conquered and enslaved them, and “who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.”

From Salon

A couple of blocks south of my childhood home, down a street called Las Casas, sat a community of more than 200 houses, including some that were close to a century old, all still standing after the first day of the fire.

From The Wall Street Journal

Neighbors on Las Casas stayed in touch through a chat group.

From The Wall Street Journal

One resident who sneaked back in the morning of day two saw fires starting to break out, but no fire engines came to save Las Casas.

From The Wall Street Journal

Desafortunadamente, las casas de Altadena y Malibú fueron destruidas en los incendios de Eaton y Palisades.

From Los Angeles Times