He admits the Revolution was necessary, but calls the sanitized version a "monumental falsification."

Este artículo profundiza en los temas, el estilo y el impacto de una obra que desafía la percepción del lector, colocándolo en la incómoda posición de dudar de todo lo que sabe.

This is Zunzunegui’s favorite target. He argues that modern activists falsify history when they judge 16th-century conquistadors, 19th-century liberals, or 20th-century revolutionaries by 21st-century ethical standards. "To call Hernán Cortés a 'genocida' using the 1948 UN definition," he often says, "is not history; it is a farce."

Naturally, the historian’s stance has made him a magnet for controversy. Critics accuse Juan Miguel Zunzunegui of committing the very sin he claims to fight. The accusations include: