![A bearded man in a red robe rides a white horse over fallen figures, holding a staff with a flag, in a stylized, historic painting. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Red_2-scaled-1-400x225.jpg)
Red
BY LES DALY This, it may be said, is a story to dye for. It is a story about a diminutive, unusually endowed female spirited out of the New World by Spanish conquistadors nearly five hundred years ago to make her mark across at least four continents and contribute more wealth to the Spanish Empire than anything else they took home from the Americas except silver.
Categories: Visual art