Professor Marcelo Gullo is a geopolitical analyst. The video is long, is in Spanish, and the YouTube translation is rough around the edges. In my opinion, posting the video is important for those interested in the geopolitics of the region.
I think the Spanish colonization of the Americas gets a bad wrap. Hispanic Americans are calling the phenomenon “The Black Legend” where everything that Spain did was pure hatred and evil incarnate. Nonsense! Any Hispanic American living today, probably wouldn’t exist if that colonization was made by any other empire. They will probably be living in an Indian reservation somewhere in South America.
In the Spanish Empire the Catholic Church said “hey those are human beings, what are you doing?” The natives were converted to Christianity and everybody started marrying and forming families. Yesterday I was checking the history of Geronimo. The Apache Indian that started doing raids and rebelled in north America. In old American movies he is depicted as a savage killing white men. Note the name 
Geronimo, sounds Spanish right? Turns out Mr. Geronimo spoke Spanish wore a Christian cross and knew the bible. His family came from that old Spanish Empire region in North America.
Folks we are Hispanic Americans not Latin Americans, that was a divide and conquer word spell used by the British and French to separate American Spain from European Spain. We were really one people for centuries, the so called “Latin America wars for Independence” were really civil wars fought between Hispanic Americans. The region got balkanized on purpose and the Hispanic American world fragmented.
The Pax Americana is not going to last folks. Is impossible for the handlers of the United States to keep using the country, to impose a “rules base order” on the rest of the world. People are not going to accept it. I think that once the Pax Americana era ends, the world is going to split in cultural blocks. The Anglo block. The Asian block. The Middle East block. People in South America don’t want to be left behind and are calling for the creation of the Hispanic American block.
I think an Hispanic American block could happen, or the region will remain fragmented in the culture and economy. Spain is already making the moves and is being quiet open about it. Spain is key for the formation of an Hispanic block, why? CULTURE! they are the keepers of the Hispanic expression of Western culture. Is the glue that keeps it all together. If Spain stops being a colony of Germany and gets out of the EU to become a nation once again, then I see it happening.
There is something important that I need to add. Puerto Rico was the only territory that remained loyal to the Spanish Empire. Julio Iglesias has family in Puerto Rico. At the end of the Spanish - American war, Puerto Rico was an overseas province of Spain, just like Barcelona, Andalusia, etc. People had Spanish citizenship with equal representation in the Spanish goverment. In other words, we were not a colony folks. This presents a problem because now in Spain, the Law Schools in Madrid made a study about the Spanish - American war and the Treaty of Paris which ended the conflict. They are saying that what was done to Puerto Rico was a great crime. That you can’t revoke the Spanish nationality and citizenship. They are proposing granting Spanish citizenship to all the people living on the Island. Nobody here is asking for it, they are just saying we are going to give it to you guys because it belongs to you.
In other words, if you think an Hispanic American block with Spain leading the pack is fantasy land, think again, they are trying to make a beach head. People in South America are supporting the idea, they don’t want to see further balkanization of the region.
