The question comes up every so often about the Jesuits burying their hordes of gold before the King Carlos and the Spanish government expelled them in 1767. The great expulsion had nothing to do with the great work the Jesuits were doing in the New World but due to politics in Spain.
The truth is there’s no truth to any of those lost treasure stories. There are many valid reasons as to why. First and foremost the missions were not rich by any stretch in fact during the Jesuit period they we
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