Articles by Patricio Lons

Journalist and Researcher on Hispanic Revisionism and the Legacy of Spain in America. Founder of Comunidad Hispanista.
When I was only ten years old, studying the English invasions of Buenos Aires in 1806 and 1807, I was surprised by the extraordinary capacity of the Spanish people to overcome any difficulty they faced with fewer resources.
The need to understand our reality led me to a passion for knowing our history. I took advantage of the possibilities afforded to me by having an important family tradition, to be able to investigate that other history that does not come to light, the history of the defeated, the hidden history of what our land was before the transformations.
Understanding that all the Spains of Europe, America, Asia and Africa belonged to the same civilisation, led me along paths that, unknown at the beginning, opened multiple doors that each one of them led to the truth bequeathed by Spain.
Understanding that Spain brought us the Roman order, Greek philosophy and the faith of the Holy Land, and that the revolutions made us involute in these columns of civilisation, led me to the answers necessary to understand the historical course of Argentina in particular and of Latin America in general.
That is where we are, in recovering our tradition to return to being what we should never have abandoned. And I invite all the heirs of Spain and Rome to join us in this journey.

1010 The Counts of Barcelona and Urgel ally with Muhammad II against Sulayman, from whose reign the Kingdoms of Taifas will derive.
1774 In Mexico City, Spaniard Pedro Romero de Terreros founded the Nacional Monte de Piedad, under the name of "Sacro Real del Monte de Piedad de Ánimas", which provided a solution to the economic problems of the residents of New Spain.
1782 Carlos III creates the National Bank of San Carlos.
1881 Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine on sheep.
1899 The last men in the Philippines leave Baler after 337 days sieged in the town church.
1944 The Germans take Rome, prepared to defend themselves there by sending the Pope to Germany, but eventually rectify their position and leave the city.
1945 Allied bombing of Osaka, Japan's second largest city.

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