New Mexico’s deep wounds were exposed last year when protesters disrupted the annual re-enactment of Spanish conquistador Don Diego de Vargas’ retaking of Santa Fe in 1692. “Slay! Slay! Slay like ...

Mexico’s Aztec heritage is recognized in a parade on June 25, 1952, in Mexico City during the International Lions Club Convention. Aug. 13, 2021, marks the 500th anniversary of a key point the Spanish ...

A new study, published now in Nature Ecology and Evolution, draws on pollen records from tropical regions formerly claimed by the Spanish Empire in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, to test the ...

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In 1901, within two years of the United States taking Guam from the Spanish and establishing a military government on the island overseen by the Navy, a group of 32 mainly CHamoru men sent a petition ...

Founded in 1540 on the banks of the River Magdalena, Mompox played a key role in the Spanish colonization of northern South America. From the 16th to the 19th century the city developed parallel to ...

Before the inauguration of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo on October 1, her first diplomatic conflict had already begun. Although she invited the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, to her ...

After being initially welcomed by the people of Hagåtña and Guam in 1668, and celebrated with hundreds requesting to be converted and dozens of babies offered to be baptized, the mood of the CHamoru ...

Influencer Melissa Ray shared a TikTok Thursday of her trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. In the video, Ray expressed gratitude for the Spanish architecture built in Mexico. TikTok users were quick to call out ...

New research shows that disruptions to Indigenous land management following Iberian colonization did not always result in widespread forest regrowth in the Americas and Asia-Pacific, as has been ...