Should Miami join the Ibero-American Capital Cities? (Gateway, Havana: population, county)

[wanderer34]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_...Capital_Cities

I get it! Miami isn't the capital city of the United States of America, nor is it the capital of the State of Florida, but it is the hub of Latin America, so much that it's considered the Capital and the Gateway of Latin America. And it hosts many different Latin American ethnicities with it's boundaries such as the Cubans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans that it's a pan-Latino city.

Over 70% of the current population of the city of Miami is Hispanic or Latino, and about 70% of the populace speaks Spanish as the primary or secondary language. Albeit Miami isn't a capital city of any sorts, with about 20% of the American populace being Hispanic or Latino, it should consider some sort of membership, either full or associate, with the Ibero-American Capital Cities. What say you?

[wanderer34]

Originally Posted by AntonioR

Nowhere in the United States is part of Ibero-America (Spain+Portugal+American countries that were colonies of Spain -basically, anywhere with Spanish as an official language-+Brazil.) There are parts of the USA that were once part of Spain (Florida+much of the West) and with the West many passed from Spain to Mexico prior to ending up in the USA. The moment they became part of the USA, they were out of Ibero-America.

While there are points in favor of Miami, still it isn't Ibero-America.

I made the post because I felt that since Miami does boast a 70% Hispanic/Latino population and the same amount of people speak Spanish, it made a lot of sense to add Miami as a "capital" with other cities such as Havana, Madrid, Bogota, Caracas, Buenos Aires, etc., even though Miami, technically, isn't a capital city per se.

I understand that FL isn't a part of Ibero America, but the state of FL was founded as a Spanish colony by Ponce de Leon and was purchased by the Americans in the early 19th century. The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie operates similarly to the Ibero-American Capital Cities, in that rather than the Francophone capital cities are represented, it's the entire country, and in some instances, certain jurisdictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organi...a_Francophonie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organi...phonie#Members

Practically all of Canada, and especially the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, have full representation in the OIF. Also, the state of Louisiana has an observer status in the OIF, as well as Argentina, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. One noteworthy nation that's not a Francophone country, but is an associate is the Republic of Ghana. It never was a colony of France, as Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) was a British colony for much of the land, and a small part of it a colony of Germany. The main reason why it's an associate member of the Francophonie is because Ghana is surrounded by other Francophone countries such as Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Togo. An oddity is the country of Algeria, which was once a French colony and has one of the biggest French speaking countries in the world, but if not a member of the Francophonie.

Back to Florida. It's no longer a Spanish colony, and the largest ethnicity in FL is German (about 9% of FL's population), but Latinos, collectively, make up about 27.1% of FL's population, & the largest Latino ethnicity being Cubans, who make up 7% of the total population, as of the 2022 US census 1-year estimate. While FL nowadays has nothing to do with Spain or the Spaniards, Miami and Miami-Dade County are practically the enclaves of so many Latino ethnicities, you might as well give Miami full or associate status to the Ibero-American Capital Cities mainly due to the Spanish speaking majority in Miami and Miami-Dade.