Metro Villa de Cortés Metro Villa de Cortés Metro Villa de Cortés is a station on Line 2 of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located in the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City, directly south of the city center on Calzada de Tlalpan. It is a surface station. The station logo depicts a helmet of the type used by the Spanish conquerors (conquistadores) who, led by Hernán Cortés, invaded the Aztec empire in the 16th century. The name of this station comes from the area in which it is now located, which was known as the "Villa de Cortés" in colonial times.
Last of the Conquerors Last of the Conquerors Last of the Conquerors is the 1948 debut novel by African-American journalist and editor William Gardner Smith. The novel concerns the author's experience as an African-American GI serving in the racially segregated United States Army in US-occupied Germany after World War II. The protagonist, Hayes Dawkins, has an affair with Ilse, a white German woman. He and Ilse struggle against racist Army officers and policies to sustain a relationship that some white soldiers condemn (although there are also many friendly whites who help them). "Last of the Conquerors" depicts post-Nazi Germany as more racially tolerant than