1.   A few captures and escapes later, Brown ventured to what is now Buenos Aires to set up a trading business in the Spanish colony.

2.   Cuba at the time was a Spanish colony where a rebellion was flaring against Spanish rule.

3.   Foreign investors in the former Spanish colony will be welcome and oil prices will be determined by the international price, Evuna said.

4.   In his later years he championed the Spanish language, lamenting its demise in former Spanish colonies like the Philippines, Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara.

5.   Influencing the debate is the experience a century ago of U.S. soldiers conducting bloody counterinsurgency campaigns to consolidate control over the Philippines, a former Spanish colony.

6.   No longer a Spanish colony, no longer dominated by the United States, no longer a Soviet welfare client.

7.   Remember, this was a Spanish colony.

8.   To this conundrum, the Philippine Islands, then a Spanish colony, seemed the perfect solution.

9.   As a former Spanish colony, Cuba is seeking trade benefits on its citrus exports.

10.   Bolivia, a former Spanish colony, once provided the silver that fueled Spanish growth during the colonial period.