Marie Arana

We can't deny that.

So, yes, I count the Spaniards as Latinos, yes.

Bernardo de Galvez, you know that people don't pay attention because they're not there in the... in the books that... in the school books that teach you that Bernardo de Galvez was...

the governor of Florida and Louisiana at the same time, and he was the one who gathered soldiers from all over the Caribbean, from Mexico, from various places, to help George Washington with his revolution.

And without Galvez, there was no chance of winning the revolution for George Washington, because he needed his troops, he needed everything, food, everything.

And they had blocked the Atlantic coast, so they had to go through the Mississippi River,

que era parte de su territorio, de Galvez.

Así que él mandaba buques con tropas, con comida, con todo, para ayudar a George Washington.

Para mí, el español, con toda su fuerza de ser gobernador, de organizar tropas para ayudar a la revolución, sí, claro, él también fue un latino así muy

muy importante en la historia de este país.

Sí, claro.

¿Cómo no?

Los vínculos, la historia, nos unen mucho, Ricardo.

Yo creo que sí.

No, sin duda para mí.

In many ways, it's a term that doesn't really have value.

Because it's an imposed term, like others, that doesn't really make sense.

Sí, hablo mucho de la raza y la mezcla, la mezcla tremenda que tenemos nosotros en los países de Latinoamérica.

Es para mí una cosa tan importante, aunque tenemos tantas razas y tenemos tanta mezcla,

and we also have so many divisions, we come to this country and we don't understand, we don't understand the binarism of this country, which thinks only in black and white, and it's a surprise for us, because we haven't catalyzed ourselves in that way, and we have to