{"id":53636,"date":"2023-11-03T18:55:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T17:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53636"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:39:17","slug":"an-excellent-video-against-the-myth-that-blames-spain-for-the-poverty-of-hispanic-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/03\/an-excellent-video-against-the-myth-that-blames-spain-for-the-poverty-of-hispanic-america\/","title":{"rendered":"An excellent video against the myth that blames Spain for the poverty of Hispanic America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, the idea has existed in Hispanic America that the blame for all its misfortunes, including its poverty, lies with Spain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/10\/12\/spain-did-not-commit-any-genocide-in-america-what-it-did-was-to-end-one\/\">Spain did not commit any genocide in America: what it did was to end one<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/24\/10-reasons-to-vindicate-the-hispanic-cultural-heritage-of-the-united-states\/\">10 reasons to vindicate the Hispanic cultural heritage of the United States<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spain has become a scapegoat<\/strong> that many Latin American politicians and intellectuals, especially those on the left, use in a demagogic way to <strong>exempt from any blame the politicians that the countries of the ancient Spanish America after its independence<\/strong>, which are largely responsible for bringing that part of the continent to its current sad situation. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@rubiodonze\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Javier Rubio Donz\u00e9<\/a> has published an excellent video refuting that myth<\/strong > (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00abOjal\u00e1 nos hubieran conquistado los ingleses\u00bb\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/unRGMKnSlck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicomaxico.org\/zocalo\/zocalo.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mexicomaxico.org<\/a>. Mexico City in 1843.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, the idea has existed in Hispanic America that the blame for all its misfortunes, including its poverty, lies with Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10375],"tags":[12107,16398,11093,11020],"class_list":["post-53636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-hispanicity","tag-javier-rubio-donze","tag-spanish-america","tag-spanish-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}