Ever hear about those teachers who used to tape kids mouths shut for speaking Spanish in schools along the U.S.-Mexico border? Turns out they weren’t just cruel, they were also limiting their student’s intellectual growth. “Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter,” Yudhijit Bhattacharjee wrote earlier this year in…...

A Royal Navy patrol boat has confronted a Spanish warship off the coast of Gibraltar in the latest and most serious clash over Britain’s territorial waters. The Government has accused Spain of an ‘unlawful incursion’ after the Vencedora, a 288ft-long naval corvette, came within three miles of Gibraltar’s coast, apparently…...

The dead were celebrated by a Hispanic group on Saturday to keep the language and culture of Latin America alive in Dunedin. Grupo Hispano Otago president Catherine Barriga said El Dia de los Muertos – the Day of the Dead – was an annual celebration in many Latin American countries.…...

ROSEMARIE MULCAHY, who died suddenly on September 5th, enjoyed an early career as a fashion model, working for Balmain in Paris in the early 1960s before going on to become a highly distinguished academic. She will probably be best remembered as an authority on Spanish art. Her collected essays, Philip…...

After Nacho Manzano’s divine beetroot gazpacho soup at Ibérica in Marylebone, I was excited to see what David Muñoz, the chef of two-Michelin star DiverXO in Madrid, could do. Muñoz was invited as Manzano’s guest to cook dinner at the new Ibérica in Canary Wharf. In the hands of anyone…...

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Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is often described as Spain’s most famous novel – and yet few have ever read it. Now the academy, the official guardian of the Spanish language, has divided the work into more than 2,000 segments. They will be read and recorded – in Spanish only…...