Sanchez touts Spanish aerospace prowess on visit to NASA lab 1 minute read
Los Angeles, Jul 22 (EFE).- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez emphasized his country’s strength in aerospace technology during a visit Thursday to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena.
Sanchez, who arrived in the United States late Tuesday on a trip with a pronounced emphasis on business and the economy, was accompanied to the JPL facility by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Spain’s minister of industry, tourism and trade, Reyes Maroto.
Deputy Director Larry James led the visitors on a tour that included a stop in the JPL control room, the nerve center of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission.
A class in Spanish, in a file photo taken in Los Angeles in 2019.ROBYN BECK / afp/ getty imges
The growth of the Hispanic population in the United States is reflected in the countryâs most common surnames, which are increasingly Spanish in origin, while the number of Spanish speakers also continues to rise.
The Pew Research Center will soon publish new data about the increasing size of the Hispanic population in the United States. Already common family names such as GarcÃa, currently in sixth place according to census data, and RodrÃguez, taking the ninth spot, are expected to rise even further up the rankings last released in 2010.
Spain s Cervantes Institute will pay tribute to renowned Iberian poet
Spain s Cervantes Institute will pay tribute to renowned Iberian poet
9 de enero de 2021, 0:30
Madrid, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) The Cervantes Institute of this capital will hold a tribute to the poet Jaime Gil de Biedma next Monday, as a closing of the commemorative events for the 30th anniversary of his death, the institution reported.
The agenda includes the deposit in memoriam of his dossier in the Caja de las Letras (Chamber of Letters) and the premiere of the new show Vals del aniversario (Anniversary Waltz), stared by the singer-songwriter Silvia Comes and dedicated to that writer of Generation of 50, with some of his poems set to music.