Spain’s Instituto Cervantes and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) have launched the Observatorio del Español para América Latina y el Caribe (OEALC) in Mexico City. UNAM Rectorate building, displaying a Siqueiros mural, Mexico City The Observatory will be based at UNAM’s Centro de Enseñanza para Extranjeros, from which it will manage analysis and research projects on Spanish throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The main goal of the center will be to analyze the use, teaching, and study of the language in Spanish-speaking America, with particular attention to its coexistence with other languages on the continent. This new center is part of the Observatorio Global del Español (OGE) network and will serve as the “coordinator” for several observatories dedicated to the same mission. This network already includes the Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures at Harvard and the Observatory of Spanish in Eastern Contexts, which has branches in Tokyo, Beijing, and New Delhi.…