The King sees Trump’s decision to eliminate Spanish from the White House website and hopes it will be “temporary”

In that sense, the King has assured that the decision of the president of the United States Government, Donald Trump, to withdraw the Spanish language as an instrument of communication from the White House is “striking”.

“It is the case of the US, where the Cervantes Institute has 5 centers and where Spanish far exceeds other languages ​​in secondary and university education; a country that will reach almost 100 million Spanish speakers in 2050. Which makes even more striking that decision to withdraw the Spanish language as an instrument of communication from the White House itself. The meeting.

These statements arrive after the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, lamented Trump’s performance, considering that he has “humiliated” his 60 million speakers in the country for relating the Spanish language to a language “of poor and migrants “.

“It was sad news because I thought that after the support he had had of the Latin population, maybe he changed his attitude because now they make up a very significant part of the US economy, but has not changed. I valued that I was going to Stay neutral and has removed the Spanish on the website, re -joining Spanish with a language of poor and migrants. During a meeting this Wednesday with media, on the occasion of the Board of Trustees.

As has advanced, the Cervantes Center in the city of Los Angeles aims to enhance Spanish but soon intend to “consolidate” its presence in the United States, so the implementation of an extension and center in Miami are studying presence. In addition, in conversation with the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), they have studied the possibility that the next International Language Congress in the United States.

“It is not only about defending the prestige of Spanish, but it is about refusing to humiliate people for being migrant or poor, it seems very derogatory and it is a dynamic that is spreading around the world and that is very worrying,” he said Shaded García Montero.

In addition, the king has specified that the teaching of Spanish is “inseparable” of the dissemination of culture, celebrating that the last 2024 Cervantes did more than 7,800 activities in the world, which involved almost 5,000 creators.

“The teaching of Spanish is inseparable from the dissemination of culture, and last year the Cervantes Institute made, in this area, more than 7,800 activities in the world. We also have the Network of Libraries of the Cervantes Institute, the most Great of the Hispanic world with 63 libraries, which treasures almost a million and a half documents. A book speaks to you, but also listens to you.

The employers have known the main data of the 2023-2024 course at the meeting, which had to be held on November 5 of last year, had to be postponed by the consequences of the Dana.

Some of the data that the king has highlighted and that this morning has advanced the director of the entity are the more than 600 million Spanish speakers in the world.

“Our linguistic community encompasses all Latin American countries, but also Spanish -speaking residents in other countries,” he added.

In addition to the King (President of Honor) and Letizia, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez (Executive President) and the Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares; of education and professional training, Pilar Alegría; and culture, Ernest Urtasun.

The Pardo Palacio, among other employers, the Cervantes 2023, Luis Mateo Díez; the Nicaraguan writer and Cervantes Award 2017, Sergio Ramírez; the writer Elvira Lindo; the director of the RAE, Santiago Muñoz Machado; Mexican writer and editor Gonzalo Celorio; the president of the Conference of Rectors of the Spanish Universities (CRUE), Eva Alcón; the director of the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center (Peru), Hernando Torres-Fernández; the president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Jaime Domínguez; the rector of the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Ricardo Mairal; and the president of the Association for the Teaching of Spanish as Foreign Language (Asele), Javier Muñoz-Basols.

Park Chul ñ Award

Before the Board of Trustees, the Kings have delivered the Ñ 2024 Prize of the Cervantes Institute to the Korean Hispanic Park Chul (1949), Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Literature at the Hankuk University of South Korea and one of the greatest experts in Cervantine and Quixotic matters in its country.

The King has congratulated, in that sense, Chul “one of the greatest experts in Cervantine matters” in South Korea, as he pointed out during his speech.

“Regarding the presence, study and teaching of our language and literature in the world, let me now congratulate, on behalf of everyone present, to the awarded one with the Ñ award in its 2024 edition: Korean philologist and Hispanicist Park Chul , one of the greatest experts in Cervantine matters in South Korea, and first translator of El Quijote to the Korean. And an academic career consecrated to Spanish, “he added.

The monarch has completed his speech by celebrating the “Shared House” that is the Cervantes Institute for all Spanish speakers. “A meeting place and brotherhood from which to see, renew and enrich the space of our common language,” he thanked.