Día de muertos is a special holiday to honor the dead that takes place in México at the beginning of November. During these festive days people believe that their loved ones return to the land of the living, so they prepare a big celebration with

Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus) often gets credited for the controversial expedition that led to the "discovery" of the American continent. However, history often forgets that three Spanish brothers were instrumental in this undertaking. Martín Alonso Pinzón, Francisco Martín Pinzón and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón were experienced

In 1803, Francisco Balmis, the personal doctor of King Charles IV of Spain, led an ambitious, international healthcare expedition. Its goal was to carry the smallpox vaccine to inoculate people across the Spanish Empire. To ensure the vaccine arrived safely, 22 Spanish children sailed to

Nezahualcóyotl was the ruler of the city-state of Texcoco, in pre-Columbian Mexico. Nezahualcóyotl was a prolific scholar, architect, and engineer who designed and oversaw the construction of schools, roads, temples, dams, markets, and gardens, to name a few of his achievements. However, his verses earned

Eydie Gormé is an American singer of Sephardic origins who crossed the language borders performing both in English and Spanish. Although she had a prolific career performing solo or with with her husband, singer Steve Lawrence, she became better known across the Spanish-speaking world when

El juego de pelota en Mesoamerica was more than a game; it was a sport with ritualistic and political connotations, dating back to at least 1650 BC. Overtime, the game changed and evolved across cultures, and there's even a version that it's still played in

Julia de Burgos was a poet, feminist and activist from Puerto Rico. From a very young age, Julia worked to advance Puerto Rico's independence and achieve equal rights to all. In her poems Julia told the story of Puerto Rico, its people, slavery, love, freedom,

The Tainos were the first peoples the Spaniards encountered when they came to America. As a consequence of their interactions, numerous words from Arawakan, the Taino language, made their way into everyday Spanish and other languages which are still in use today. Click play and

Tex-Mex cuisine is highly popular within the United States and it’s slowly gaining ground all over the world. While most people believe that this cuisine is simply the combination of Mexican and Texan cuisines, the history of Tex-Mex is far richer and complex. Click play