CARTAGENA, Colombia — Surrounded by a wall fortified by cannons and in the midst of fortresses and castles, there is no better place to appreciate Spanish influence in the New World than in this beautiful city by the Caribbean Sea. This is the place where U.S. Latinos come to recharge their ethnic batteries and to dig out the roots of their Spanish ancestry.

There are places, such as Mexico's Chichen Itza and Peru's Machu Picchu, where we go to rediscover our pre-Hispanic heritag ...

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