Fray Junipero Serra, Defender of the Indians

By |2023-01-15T15:23:28+00:00July 9th, 2020|

Source:Sonrisas en el camino Iconoclastic Madness We are witnessing, with astonishment, studied and managed movements that, under the excuse of fighting racism, seek to rewrite history. And, like gunpowder, it is spreading throughout the West, sticking its hand

No, Junípero Serra was also not genocidal

By |2023-01-16T22:53:38+00:00June 20th, 2020|

Source:Hispanic Council In defense of one of the key figures in Californinan History Once more we are faced with the taking down of a statue of yet another Hispanic figure in the USA, this time Fray

New attack on US Hispanic heritage

By |2023-01-16T00:52:05+00:00April 14th, 2021|

Source:Hispanic Council 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 referring to

The colonisation of California by Spain

By |2023-01-16T22:43:37+00:00December 22nd, 2018|

Source:A orillas del Potomac It was only logical that from the end of the 19th century until the 1980s, in California and in the country as a whole, Fray Junípero Serra was considered the "founding father of California".

The Holy California Expedition

By |2023-01-15T23:57:34+00:00November 21st, 2016|

Source:ABC The Franciscan friar Fray Junípero Serra participated in the colonisation of this state together with Gaspar de Portolá. Last third of the 18th century. Spain, however implausible it may seem today, barely ten generations later, holds

Designing América: Spain’s Imprint in the U.S.

By |2023-01-15T23:45:10+00:00March 16th, 2016|

Source:A orillas del Potomac The Spanish colonisers drew "the points" in a vast territory on which colonisation was based: they built missions, presidios (that is, forts), planned cities and created toponymy. Roads (the 5 Caminos Reales), tens of thousands

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