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These are the Spanish kings and heroes who guard the walls of the US Capitol: the forgotten legacy

Updated:01/17/2021 01:09h

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The storming of Trump supporters the United States Capitol, which is the place where the Senate and The House of Representatives They meet to discuss, debate and deliberate national politics, left a week ago, rebound, a very curious image linked to Spain. In the background of the assault appeared, inside this building originally designed by George Washington in 1793, paintings of Spanish conquerors such as Hernando de Soto, the first European to cross the Mississippi, or Francisco Pizarro looking impassively at the surrealist scenes that were lived through those days. Good memory that in the Capitol, not only the Spanish Bernardo de Gálvez, hero of the American War of Independence, has surrendered

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