Why not, indeed. If you do an “advanced search” with “puerto” as a key word and my tag as author, you will find that I have mentioned Puerto Rico five times.
The first, dated 09/02/21, reads, “In summary, I would not be surprised if CCP's expansion plans in the North America do not include a Manilla-style operation in Mexico, Puerto Rico, or wherever English-speaking staff can be located at lower wages in a location in a desired time zone. That staff in those locations also speak Spanish is a plus for the USA business. This is just an idle speculation on my part, and it has no bearing on the SP trajectory in the short-to-medium term.”
On 20/7/ 22 I wrote. “In future, I expect CCP to open a call centre in Puerto Rico, and kill two birds with one stone (cheaper wages and Spanish-English bilingualism)”. And on 30/7/22 I wrote, “All collections teams in the USA need a degree of English-Spanish bilingualism, and that makes Puerto Rico ideal.”
In the 1900s, English ousted Spanish in the Philipines as the most well understood European language, but if a Filipino learns a third language, it is most likely to be Spanish. There are thousands of Spanish loanwords in native Philippine languages, and Spanish writing conventions have influenced the spelling system used for writing these languages. There are an estimated three million Filipinos who can speak Spanish, and many schools and universities teach Spanish.
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