The United States, Live in Spanish

América Hispana is the Spanish-language information infrastructure connecting Hispanics to the institutional and political life of the United States, in real time. We access primary sources directly: the White House, Congress, federal agencies, and the country’s key decision-making venues, and we turn that information into Spanish-language audiovisual content, translated and placed in context, ready to be watched, shared, and analyzed. Just as English-speaking audiences have outlets like C-SPAN to follow institutional life without filters, Spanish speakers in the United States have never had an equivalent source, until now. Our goal is simple: what happens inside America’s institutions should reach the millions of people who follow the news primarily in Spanish, directly, clearly, and on time.

There is a vast network of journalists, communicators, and independent outlets producing content every day, with direct, trusted relationships with their own audiences, but who don’t always have the agencies, the funding, or the equipment to obtain, cut, and process first-hand institutional footage: Spanish-language video, ready to use, straight from the original source in Washington. Much of that information, such as speeches, hearings, and official statements, simply never gets translated, or never arrives in time, for the people who need it most: the communicators who speak to the Hispanic community every single day.

América Hispana isn’t trying to become another media outlet. We aim to be the infrastructure that supplies and distributes that information so others can use it. We function, at once, as an open news agency for those who lack the access or resources to obtain this material themselves, and as a large-scale distributor of U.S. institutional content, including speeches, broadcasts, and original footage, translated into Spanish and delivered in real time. We don’t compete for those audiences: we strengthen the outlets that already have them. Through technology, real-time translation, and a distributed network of communicators and partner outlets, we multiply the reach of a single statement, speech, or decision, so it can travel in minutes from Washington to hundreds of platforms and millions of people.

Why América Hispana Exists

The United States is home to more than 65 million Hispanics and belongs to a far larger linguistic community: nearly 636 million people speak Spanish worldwide, with Latin America as its main demographic center. Yet there is a striking imbalance between the size of that audience and the amount of U.S. institutional and political information available directly in Spanish. The major Hispanic networks cover only a fraction of the information the White House, Congress, federal agencies, and the rest of the country’s institutions generate every day. For millions of people, both inside the United States and across Latin America, that information rarely arrives from the source, in Spanish, in real time.

That void hasn’t stayed empty. While English-speaking audiences have multiple networks, agencies, and direct institutional access services, the Spanish-language ecosystem has far fewer alternatives of its own. Into that space, foreign government-funded outlets have settled permanently, among them RT en Español, CGTN Español, HispanTV, and TeleSUR, aimed precisely at Spanish-speaking audiences. The result is a paradox: some of the voices with the greatest capacity to explain the United States in Spanish end up coming from outside the United States, while independent journalists and communicators, inside and outside the country, don’t always have the access or the resources to obtain and distribute that source themselves.

América Hispana was founded to close that gap, so access to U.S. public information no longer depends on who has the most resources to reach it, and so it can arrive, from the source and in Spanish, to the hundreds of millions of people who today receive it late, incomplete, or filtered through other interests.

From the Source to Millions of Hispanics