King Felipe VI highlighted this Friday, October 4, that the relationship with Latin America is “so deep”, that “it even allows speak frankly about our possible disagreements“, which he also considered “inevitable in so many centuries of shared history”, but he pointed out that “always from respect based on friendship”, he said.
“We are Ibero-Americans, a unit in diversitya culture of cultures,” said King Felipe VI, who has reaffirmed that Culture “is the rock on which our brotherhood is built, the element that structures our identity,” he said.
In that sense, and “in this current time of great global challenges that require the coordinated effort of everyone”, King Felipe VI has considered that the “focus” of the relationship with Ibero-America “must be directed towards the presentin order to prepare or build an even better future, of greater shared benefit, of greater opportunities.
That is why Felipe VI has highlighted that “the essential thing is to gain momentum as it unites us, in our affinities, to ultimately achieve pragmatic, useful and balanced answers“, and that “they reach everyone.”
Felipe VI spoke in this way this Friday in Trujillo, during the inauguration of the ‘Meeting of the Hispanic American Academies of History: A shared history and its Academies’which brings together representatives of the History Academies of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Uruguay and Spain.
The inauguration of this meeting, organized by the Royal Academy of History and the Obra Pía de los Pizarro Foundation, was attended by the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Pilar Alegría; the president of the Government of Extremadura, María Guardiola; the director of the Royal Academy of History, Carmen Iglesias; the president of the Obra Pía de los Pizarro Foundation, Hernando de Orellana Pizarro, and the mayor of Trujillo, Inés Rubio, among other authorities.
“History and very intense ties of affection”
In his speech, Felipe VI recalled that this year 2024 marks the a decade of his reignand recalled a fragment of his speech from that time, which today “maintains its full validity”, in which he pointed out that “with the Ibero-American countries we are united by history and very intense ties of affection and brotherhood”, as well as “economic ties and ever closer visions of the global.
Furthermore, “above all, we are united by our shared language and culture. An asset of immense value that we must enhance with determination and generosity,” Felipe VI recalled.
The monarch has alluded to the language, the Shared history “with its fruits in science, urban planning, letters, arts or thought”, and its “conflicts and disputes”, and has also pointed out that “I could also talk about travel, commerce, communication: about all culture, which since the end of the 15th century, flowed through the arteries that connected the world,” he said.
As he pointed out, this meeting of historians that is being held this weekend between Trujillo and Madrid, “is another example, in the field of the humanities, of what we can do together”, which is why he addressed the representatives of the Academies of History to point out that they fill it “with meaning with your presence, with your scientific spirit.”
A spirit that, “free of prejudices and interests, allows us to analyze, interpret, agree or disagree, always from the rigor and understanding of each historical context,” highlighted Felipe VI, who trusted that this meeting will represent “a time and a place for concord, brotherhood and the cultivation of your beautiful discipline, with no other purpose than to delve into it and spread it,” he said.
Extremadura and Trujillo, linked to America
Furthermore, the monarch has valued that Extremadura and Trujillo are “a land and a city so linked to America”, so “it has great significance that the first day of this Meeting is celebrated in this city so full of history and whose architecture reflects it well”, like the Barrantes-Cervantes palace in which this event is celebrated.
Regarding the Meeting of the Hispano-American Academies of History that was inaugurated, Felipe VI wanted to “recognize the work of the Obra Pía de los Pizarro Foundationfor “promoting meetings and dialogues about Spain and America”, as well as the Royal Academy of History for “creating, together with the sister Academies of the American hemisphere, a space to advance together, to know and understand each other better and better, as societies and as countries”.
For this reason, the King has expressed himself “sure” that this meeting will result in “shared projects based on respect for our ties and our diversity.”
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