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The Manifest Destination of Spanish in the United States

Summary by El Pais
The United States is not understood without Spanish. It is an incontestable fact. Historically, it reached what is now American territory before English. The earliest literary text that gives an account of an area of the future country, Florida, is the History of New Mexico, by Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, published in 1610. The American destiny of Spanish illustrates it well a symbolic coincidence: in 1492, when the continents separated by the Atl…

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The United States is not understood without Spanish. It is an incontestable fact. Historically, it reached what is now American territory before English. The earliest literary text that gives an account of an area of the future country, Florida, is the History of New Mexico, by Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, published in 1610. The American destiny of Spanish illustrates it well a symbolic coincidence: in 1492, when the continents separated by the Atl…

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Friday, June 13, 2025.
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