Blasco Núñez Vela

Señor de Tabadillo, Caballero de Santiago, 1st Viceroy of Peru

1490 CE to 1546 CE

Blasco Núñez Vela (c. 1490 – January 18, 1546) is the first Spanish viceroy of Peru, from May 15, 1544 to January 18, 1546.

He is charged by King Charles I with the enforcement of the controversial New Laws, which deal with the failure of the encomienda system to protect the indigenous people of America from the rapacity of the conquistadors and their descendants.

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