The president of the Government of Extremadura, María Guardiola, has thanked His Majesty King Felipe VI for the responsibility assumed by the Crown of Spain in the “very important” relationship between Europe and America. “What your support for cultural and educational initiatives does is strengthen those ties between Spain and Latin America,” the president stated this Friday during her speech at the inauguration of the ‘Meeting of the Hispanic American Academies of History: A shared history and its Academies’ organized by the Royal Academy of History and the Obra Pía de los Pizarro Foundation. The opening ceremony of the conference was held at the Palacio de los Barrantes-Cervantes in Trujillo and was also attended by the Minister of the Presidency, Interior and Social Dialogue, Abel Bautista, and the Minister of Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports, Victoria Bazaga. “The King of Spain is the best representative outside our borders and has always had a look of affection and a personal and institutional commitment to this land, to Extremadura, for which we Extremadura are immensely grateful to him. Yuste is that place from which Another monarch, Charles V, dreamed of a united Europe,” the president remarked. In this sense, Guardiola recalled that “from the Government of Extremadura we are committed to this common effort and I would like to emphasize and highlight our strategy, the ‘Extremestiza Strategy’, which will strengthen ties on both shores of the Ocean by focusing on miscegenation. as a distinctive feature”. The head of the Extremaduran Executive has defended that “the brotherhood with Latin America transcends everything. It matters infinitely more than any ideological dispute. The brotherhood with America can be touched, it can be smelled and, above all, it can be heard in the mouths of 600 million people who share the same language and that surpasses any interested interpretation”. Furthermore, he has assured that “the black legend and its new prescribers only have one objective and that is to water the seeds of confrontation, but reality always prevails over distortion, like light prevails over darkness.” The regional president explained that “next November 14, the ‘A Round Trip’ event will be held here, in the city of Trujillo, within the framework of the commemoration of the 5th centenary of Pizarro’s first trip. which encompasses a multidisciplinary project of cultural cooperation between Extremadura and Latin America with several lines of action in the next year 2025.” Likewise, Guardiola has outlined “the importance of Guadalupe as the cradle of Hispanidad, which will be reflected in two important anniversaries that we will also support: the Jubilee Year in 2026 and the bicentennial of the coronation of the Virgin as patron saint of Hispanidad, which will be in 2028”. “We have the enormous opportunity to reform this common home, to revive the color of miscegenation. To convert this region, Extremadura, from where those men and women willing to do anything left, into a place of encounters and new opportunities. The story of a brotherhood of more than 500 years is much stronger than any attempt at tension or division,” the president highlighted. María Guardiola has described it as “an immense honor” that “thirteen of the fifteen American academies meet here, on this earth, and add to the baggage of the Royal Academy of History.” “The light of knowledge, rigor, study and joint work will illuminate the beautiful city of Trujillo these days,” he added. The Extremaduran president recalled that “today the people and history of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Uruguay, Spain and Venezuela are embraced. that will connect. Today we delve into a common path that began with the most exciting and risky journey in history. Furthermore, he has conveyed “the gratitude of the Government of the Government of Extremadura to the academics, feel at home, because Extremadura is also your land.” Finally, the president of the Extremadura Regional Government has valued the importance of these days. “History has taught us to be better, to take care of the legacy, to sow peace and coexistence. What I hope and desire is that these values are valued highly,” he concluded. For his part, King Felipe VI recognized during his speech the work of the Obra Pía de los Pizarro Foundation “for promoting meetings and dialogues” about Spain and America, “a work that they have been doing for more than a decade and that this year reaches its highest and widest dimension”. Furthermore, he has assured that Ibero-Americans are “a unity in diversity, a culture of cultures” and has defended that “our relationship is so deep that it even allows us to speak frankly about our possible discrepancies – inevitable, moreover, in so many centuries of shared history – but always with respect based on friendship”. In this sense, the monarch recalled some words he spoke during his coronation speech as King of Spain a decade ago. “Some words that, if I spoke then with all conviction, today maintain their full validity,” he added. “With the Ibero-American countries we are united by history and very intense ties of affection and brotherhood. In recent decades, we are also united by growing economic ties and increasingly closer visions about the global, but above all we are united by our shared language and culture. “An asset of immense value that we must enhance with determination and generosity,” he insisted. For this reason, he argued that this meeting of historians held in Trujillo “is another example, in the field of the humanities, of what we can do together.” Inés Rubio, mayor of Trujillo, also participated in the inauguration of these days; Hernando de Orellana, president of the Obra Pía de los Pizarro Foundation, and Carmen Iglesias, director of the Royal Academy of History.
