Nevertheless, “Castellano” is the standard name for the language in large parts of South America and some of the Iberian peninsula. It makes sense for people who are Spanish but also speak, say, Catalan, to want to distinguish Castilian from Spanish, but I don’t know the history in the Americas. Maybe people didn’t want to be associated with Spain during the Franco era, or it could be an older Bolivarian thing?
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