5.Below them were the indios, people solely of Native American descent, and the mestizos, which included people with one Spanish and one native parent.
6.The Creole general Iturbide and the rebel mestizo commander Guerrero joined forces and won independence with most of the Peninsulares returning to Spain.
7.(This appears to have been a misapplication of the Spanish colonial terminology, which called such people mestizos; creoles were Spaniards born in the colonies.)