For 500 years he was hailed as the man who discovered America. Lately, he’s been called responsible for Starting the slave trade and the genocide of the indigenous people of the Americas.

We know him as Christopher Columbus from Genoa Italy, who in 1492 sailed the ocean blue. But was that really his name or his birthplace?

Hear about who he might really have been and where he might really might have been from on this episode of the Mysteries of Latin America podcast…