Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca after his voyage -week 2

After de Vaca returned from Spain, he wrote La Relación about his voyages as a report for King Carlos of Spain. De Vaca wanted to return to Florida and become the governor, but a sucessor had been chosen and he did not want to be 2nd in command. In 1540 he was appointed  Rio de Plata in South America. His mission was to re-establish the settlement of Buenos Aires in Argentina. As governor he was disliked by the elite settlers over his respectful treatment of the natives, and without their support he was arrested by the former governor for poor administration. He was exonerated after a trial in Spain, but never returned to the colony. He wrote a sequel to his previous book critical of the former governor. He eventually died poor about 1557.

I think it's interesting how despite of how good he sounds in his book he was not a good leader of a colony, and along with his criticisms of the governor who arrested him, we see he has a lot of pride and bias toward himself. He still died poor, it didn't really work out.