THE RIGHT OF EVERY CITIZEN TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES WITHOUT FEAR. THE REASONING FOR SUCH EMOTIONAL RESPONSES FROM RESIDENTS IS BECAUSE OF THE MAN THE STATUE REPRESENTS. JUAN DEL NORTE WAS A CONQUISTADOR ...

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President McKinley had hoped to maintain peace with Spain. The U.S. would soon be fighting from the Caribbean to the Pacific.

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Spanish colonial rule divided Mexico with a class system that still affects society today. The Spanish Conquest laid the ground for 300 years of colonial rule which made Spain the richest country in ...

Shortly after the Spanish Crown began its expansionary project in the Indies, Vitoria wrote his 1532 De Iure Belli, rejecting the notion that either the emperor or the pope was the master of the world ...

For years, the image of Colombia as an incubator for violence and drugs kept a New York City pianist, Hector Martignon, and his wife, Amparo Barron, a college professor, from buying the home they ...

A dialect from the state’s earliest Spanish-speaking settlers has endured for over 400 years in the state’s remote mountain villages. But its time may be running out. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring ...

Hidden beneath the turquoise waters off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast,” a team of divers from a shipwreck salvage company have uncovered exactly that — a load of long-lost Spanish ...