The first time is correct (A).
The colonization of Latin America was made by Portugal and Spain, and not by Germany.
The two countries came to divide the continent into a treaty called Treaty of Tordesillas, in which part of Latin America was from Spain and another part from Portugal.
Both countries caused genocide of local indigenous populations, used slave labor and forced local populations who survived to adopt the customs and cultures practiced by Portugal and Spain. Including the religious dogmas of Catholicism, through the catechesis of the Indians.