Portal:Caribbean/Did you know/1
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- ...that Isla Margarita (pictured), the largest Caribbean island of the Nueva Esparta State in Venezuela, was seized by Lope de Aguirre, a notoriously violent and rebellious conquistador in 1561? And that he held the islanders in a grip of terror until he returned to the mainland in an attempt to take Panama from the Spanish crown?
