«It is possible that hispanibundia is nothing more than the vehementia cordis (vehemence of the heart) that, according to Plinio, distinguished Hispanics. With hispanibundia the theologians of the Counter-Reformation reacted to Luther's theses. Moved by the fever of the Hispanibundia, the conquerors ventured into the deserts, the holy mountain ranges and the jungles of the New World. Hispanibundia threw our Invincible army against the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. And with Spanish pain, the best pages of our literature were written. Hispanibundia is the vibrant energy that Spaniards produce when they live, whether they think they are Spanish or not, accept it or not, find themselves in forced exile or pretend to be a foreigner in their homeland and a stranger to theirs. Convinced that peoples can only change when they make an honest effort to know their history, Mauricio Wiesenthal tries to contribute his grain of sand to understand this complex reality that has been shaped over centuries and of which, for better or better. for worse, we are part and we are heirs.