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Hernan Cortes worked as a notary and rose to become Cuba's alcalde (chief magistrate), while aspiring to more.
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“so he served as a notary and worked his way up to being alcalde, which is chief magistrate on Cuba, but he had much greater ambition.”Play from 3:25Report a misattribution
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