Overview
- Instituto Cervantes chief Luis García Montero said publicly that the RAE is led by a jurist "expert in running business for multimillion‑dollar companies," remarks delivered at a Nueva Economía Fórum event on October 9.
- Meeting the same day, the RAE plenary issued a unanimous communiqué expressing its "absolute repulsa," calling the comments an aggression and "completely unfortunate and inopportune" before the X Congreso Internacional de la Lengua.
- The Academy defended director Santiago Muñoz Machado as twice democratically elected and an acclaimed jurist, essayist and historian with national prizes and international recognition.
- Both the RAE and Instituto Cervantes remain co‑organizers of the Arequipa congress set for October 14–17 with ASALE and Peru, and King Felipe VI is expected to inaugurate the event.
- The RAE says it and the 22 academies prepared the academic program and will lead thematic tracks on mestizaje and interculturality, clear and accessible language, and artificial intelligence and Spanish.