After the battle of Trafalgar, Great Britain thought that Spain was at its feet. The citizens of Buenos Aires proved them wrong, not once but twice in as many years. Once upon a
The forced extractions of political prisoners began in the 1960s. They were drained of their blood, to sell it, before going over the wall. Cubans do not even own their own blood.
A visit to the communist hell in the Caribbean that everybody knows and nobody acknowledges.
Aliocha and Yamilka had to be separated from their children when they were still very young to go on a 'mission' to Venezuela, where they were harassed and harassed. More than 50,000
María Elena Moyano's son tells esRadio how Shining Path persecuted him after brutally murdering his mother María Elena Moyano had everything ready to travel to Spain. Neither she nor her family could take
The FARC is a terrorist group operating in Colombia, with a Marxist ideology and financed by drug trafficking. For years they have killed and kidnapped hundreds of thousands of people.
America is the great Viking failure. They were unable to maintain any established population point that would in any way influence the native peoples.
From his work as an 'observer' in Venezuela to the Puebla Group meeting, Zapatero has become the 'friend' of the narco-communist regimes and their main link to Spain.
All the violence was justified by the whites' desire to bring civilisation to the interior of the United States. The black legend of Spain is just that, a legend. The Anglo-Saxon peoples have created
Spanish heritage in the U.S. The Spanish heritage in the U.S. is unquestionable, regardless of whoever it may concern. Two thirds of the United States were Spanish, even longer Spanish than American. Discoveries, foundations
Homer Davila explains how, after independence, the new Hispanic American republics gave away freedom to fall into a modern slavery.
Archaeological findings in recent years show that the conquistadors' accounts of the anthropophagy of the civilisation that dominated central Mexico from the 14th to the 16th century were not mere war propaganda.
Most of your country's population is not indigenous, but mestizo or directly descended from Europeans. Reconciling with that identity is a necessity if we are to move forward into the future without complexes or
Dear Mr Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of the Republic of Mexico. On 13 August, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the liberation - for you the fall - of Tenochtitlán, you quoted
Argentine geopolitical analyst Marcelo Gullo responds to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and challenges him to a debate on Hernán Cortés' liberation of the Americas. On 13 August 1521, immense joy flooded
Since their appearance on Earth, human groups have travelled to expand over most of the emerged planet, whether by a semi-conscious impulse to explore, to search for resources to live on, driven by climatic
INTERVIEW WITH MARCELO GULLO Poor AMLO, so brave before the King of Spain and so cowardly before the President of the United States. We have just learned that the president of
The most approximate calculations give the chilling figure of about one billion euros for the value of the gold and silver reserves held in the royal estates of Spain in America, which England seized thanks
One of the most seemingly irrational actions a person can take is suicide. Indeed, we say "apparently" because Benito Espinosa, the 17th century Spanish-Dutch philosopher, warned us against such an adjective "irrational". Basically, the
Amid a tumult of prophecies warning Moctezuma II of the arrival of "white and bearded men from the East"[1] with the intention of conquering Tenochtitlan, Hernán Cortés arrived with half a thousand men on
The deliberate calumnies of Las Casas are the true origin of the Black Legend, beyond the occasional and quite expected disqualifications of Protestants and countries rival to Spain, especially France and England, or annoyed with
The fabulous virtues of the Indians added to the horror of the Hispanic atrocities: "And to these meek sheep and of the qualities mentioned by their Maker and Creator thus endowed, the Spaniards came
The question of the treatment of the natives was of far greater concern in Spain than it had been, or would later be, in any other empire, the treatment of subject peoples, the right
Former congressman César Combina denounces Pedro Castillo's party, Perú Libre, as "a criminal organisation". The real leader of Perú Libre, Vladimir Cerrón Rojas, an avowed Marxist-Leninist, is behind the appointment of new
The worst terrorist organisation the Americas have ever known murdered tens of thousands of Peruvians in the last 20 years of the 20th century. Mario Vargas Llosa would never have written Conversation in
Cuba is an expression of the crisis that the countries most committed to the agenda of the Sao Paulo Forum are suffering. LLast weekend thousands of Cubans took to the streets peacefully with
It is common and even popular in Hispanic America to believe that the problems of underdevelopment are the fault of the Spanish heritage. We constantly see it pointed out in the media or in
Pasto was a mestizo town in present-day Colombia that in the war of emancipation tenaciously opposed Bolivar's revolution; they were loyal subjects of the King. Thus, under the orders of Agustín Agualongo, they fought
The memory of the Black Christmas massacre remains in the lands of Pasto. Attacks on statues and other symbols of the Spanish presence in the Americas are once again taking place, most
A digital archive that rescues and disseminates the biographies of those who brought European culture to what is now the United States. This initiative, under the name of La Florida, rescues documents from
The truth is that two decades after useless "talks" between the regime and the opposition, the big loser has been the country, while chavismo has strengthened itself by gaining time, which is really the
The Spanish and the Indians were allies many more times than is generally believed. Without the American Indians, the Spanish would never have imposed themselves on the great cultures existing in the
The lies created by England, France, Germany, the Netherlands or the United States against the Spanish Empire is what is known today as the Spanish Black Legend; this was a propaganda machine created by
In order to fight against the Black Legend that so persecutes the hHistory of Spain, there is a very useful weapon, and that is the study of the events that took place, and their
A great story Spain's history is vast and grandiose, but how was it possible for it to achieve all that it did, especially when it had a small territory and a small population? How
In recent days there has been a new attack on the Hispanic heritage of the United States, this time in San Diego (California). Councilman Joe LaCava has introduced a proposal to remove the symbols
Gabriel de Castilla was a Spanish navigator and explorer born in Palencia between 1570 and 1577. His parents were Alonso de Cárdenas y Castilla and Leonor de la Mata. When he was still very
Spanish newspaper ABC recounter a diplomatic effort "in extremis" to stop the war between the United States and Spain The United States battleship 'Maine', destroyed in the bay of Havana in February 1898,
Despite his staunch antislavery stance, Alexander von Humboldt had to surrender to the evidence of the statistics collected on his trip to the old continent regarding the number of Africans subjected to the Spanish
The capture of Tenochtilan Hernán Cortés' great adventure began in 1519. After the invaluable help of his Tlaxaltec and Totonac allies, as Cortés only had several hundred men, including infantrymen, horsemen, arquebusiers, crossbowmen and
On 16 March 1758, some two thousand Indians raided the mission of San Sabá, located in Texas, and annihilated all those who lived there. The event is remembered as one of the saddest in
The men didn't go alone As the title of the book published by the Ministry of Defense in 2012 goes, "The men didn't go alone", and indeed they didn't do so, nor they fought,
We are faced with an authentic political and ideological farce that is not only modern but of recent construction and that promotes a new symbol against Western civilisation. The so-called indigenism would
The truth is that Malinche, like many native women, thanks to the Spanish enjoyed a respect and freedom that the Aztecs denied her. Two women were essential in the beginnings of the Spanish
From heroism to permanent denigration Both Spaniards and Hispanic Americans tend to condemn themselves when they analyse their present reality and their past. It seems that they have done everything wrong as
In 1503, Queen Isabel called on Governor Nicolás Ovando, a fundamental man in the first years of European presence in America, to promote mixed marriages, "which are legitimate and recommended because the Indians are
The Franciscan monk founded nine missions across the Atlantic and fought to advance native society. However, a statue erected in his honour was recently beheaded in California. Heroes are not only those who,
Irrational Iconoclasm The world has definitely gone mad; it is undergoing a process of involution that is taking us down unknown paths, full of mental poverty and contempt for history. Uneducated and intolerant people
Simón Bolivar murdered in a terribly cruel way 2,000 defenseless Spanish prisoners. The 382 Spaniards who had been locked up in those dungeons of Valencia for almost a year had lost track of
Venezuela had ended the year 1813 in the midst of plunder, ruin, and desolation. Trade and commerce had languished to extinction. Money was scarce, as exports had also suffered. What circulated was low grade