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Re:Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever fo... by RobertoG on Sunday December 06, 2015 @07:51AM (#10685140)
I doubt that, legally, a shipwreck of colonial times in Colombian waters is owned by Spain.

And I would like to think that most of the Spaniards agree with that.

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Re:Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever fo... by joeyspn on Sunday December 06, 2015 @08:35AM (#10685212)
Well, technically Colombia was then part of the Spanish Empire, and that galleon belongs to the Spanish Crown. I personally don't mind but knowing how low gold is in the spanish central bank, probably the spanish gov will make some kind of move to get back its "historical heritage"...
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Re:Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever fo... by rockyleal on Sunday December 06, 2015 @10:22AM (#10685429)
Empire which was revoked due to being an illegitimate and genocidal regime. Your argument suggests they should be allowed to re-steal now what they would have stolen back then.
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Re:Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever fo... by joeyspn on Sunday December 06, 2015 @11:05AM (#10685551)
No, I'm not saying that they should be allowed to re-steal. I said that I don't care about a shipwreck, but the spanish government has been known to claim this kind of finds in the past because technically that is a Spanish ship and legal precedents exist.

Also, all the global empires have been built on the same coercive foundation, and that doesn't make them "regimes".

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Re:Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever fo... by jorgon on Sunday December 06, 2015 @11:35AM (#10685624)
Some American talking about genocide... That's really a joke!
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Re:Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever fo... by joeyspn on Sunday December 06, 2015 @12:57PM (#10685915)
The reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 represents a"vast genocide", the most sustained on record.

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7302

Well, it looks like there was, in fact, a vast genocide. In the north and also the south americas. Really sad...

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Re:Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever fo... by rockyleal on Sunday December 06, 2015 @09:04PM (#10687678)
Who said I am American?
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Re:Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever fo... by maxerickson on Sunday December 06, 2015 @10:41AM (#10685486)
I guess the details aren't the same, but Spain has asserted legal rights over shipwrecks in the past:

http://www.tulanemaritimejournal.org/finders-weepers-losers-...

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