Editing Pan-Nationalism (section)

====[[File:PanHisp.png]] Pan-Hispanism====
[[File:Flag of the Hispanic peoples.svg|thumb|300px|right|The flag of 'Hispanidad' (literally 'Hispanicity'), used to represent all hispanic peoples. The flag was designed by a Angel Camblor, a captain in the Uruguayan Army and was first flown of Columbus day of 1932. An alternative design with dark red crosses instead of purples ones is used as the flag of the Americas.]]

'''Pan-Hispanism''' refers to a union of Spanish-speaking countries, of a cultural, economic and political nature. The movement is most prominent within the Hispanic (Iberian) and Latin Americas. It also has some traction in the [[File:Cball-Philippines.png]] Philippines in Asia, Equatorial Guinea and the Occidental Sahara, but it is weak and/or almost non-existent.

After most of Latin American countries gained independence from [[File:Cball-Spain.png]] Spain, the idea of mutual integration appeared in the new nations to counter the [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States. This idea of Pan-Hispanism not only does not materialize, but in addition to the new nations of [[File:Cball-Peru.png]] Peru, [[File:Bolivarism.png]] [[Bolivarianism|Gran Colombia]], or the [[File:Cball-RFCA.png]] Federal Republic of Central America which end up dividing into other smaller states, which in return, in many cases, end up being confronted in border conflicts. But the idea of unification will remain latent in local ideology, especially in South America.

[[File:Carlism_flag.svg|thumb|300px|right|Saint Andrew's cross, flag of the Spanish Empire, used in much of the imagery of city and department emblems across Hispanic America and by hispanists to celebrate the overall Spanish influence across its former overseas territories.]]
A modern Pan-Hispanist movement appears with the arrival of [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism|socialist ideologies]] in the region. 
This movement is marked by the workers' struggles that took place in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century, with successes such as the [[File:Castro.png]] [[National Communism|Cuban revolution]] and the revolutionary marches of [[File:Guevara.png]] [[Guevarism|Che Guevara]]. In its ideology are many egalitarian ideas, such as re-establishing relations between the Hispanic peoples.

In [[File:Cball-Spain.png]] Spain, following the fall of [[File:Franco-alt.png]] [[Francoism]], relations with Latin America have been at their best. As the sole Hispanic representative in the [[File:Cball-EU.png]] European Union, Spain defends the interests of Hispanic America in its international politics. In addition, more particularly from the 1990s, Spain considerably increased its investments in Hispanic America, becoming the main socio-commercial player in the area. The Spanish budget intended for the development of underprivileged regions of the globe is mainly intended for the poorest countries in Hispanic America, and Spain receives most of the South American immigration, mainly from  [[File:Cball-Bolivia.png]] Bolivia, [[File:Cball-Colombia.png]] Colombia, [[File:Cball-Ecuador.png]] Ecuador and [[File:Cball-Peru.png]] Peru.

The advent of [[File:Native.png]] [[Indigenism]] and radical movements that seek to "decolonize" Hispanic American countries such as [[File:Zapa.png]] [[Neozapatismo]], [[File:Ethcac.png]] [[Ethnocacerism]] and [[File:Bolivarism.png]] [[Bolivarianism]] has led to the surge of [[File:hispanist.png]] pan-histpanist groups (initially most of them were [[Reactionaryism|reactionary]], but currently not all of them are) that believe in the restoration of cultural ties between the countries that once belonged to the Spanish Empire. These groups think about the process of conquest of the Spanish Empire as ultimately civilization (under the mission of spreading the Gospel around the world) instead of exploitative, and most of the alleged negative aspects of it would be the result of a negative propaganda campaign called the [[File:AntiHisp.png]] "Black Legend" in order to sever the historic ties of its overseas territories. Many of these groups believe that the indigenist narrative should be fought by [[File:Carlism.png]] [[Carlism|restoring classic Spanish ethics and institutions]], sometimes believing that a [[File:Catheo.png]] [[Catholic Theocracy]] would be best.

Despite everything that could lead to a pan-Hispanic supranational organization, it is not happening in the near future, not just because of the Hispano-American countries refuse to see themselves under an excessive foreign influence again, but also because of Spain, which finds itself more and more integrated in the middle of the European countries, which would make it difficult for it to belong in a second organization.