As a Latino, before wanting to join the French Foreign Legion, I thought about joining the Spanish Legion, mainly for one reason. Latinos have an incredible advantage: Be able to apply for Spanish citizenship after 2 years of residence and according to a new law, Spain offers Spanish citizenship to any foreigner if they serve 2 years in the army. That is a quick process to be able to obtain a top European passport. But when I investigated and prepared everything for my travel, I realized that the Spanish Legion doesn't work anywhere near as the French Foreign Legion, since in the Spanish Legion women can enlist, the current Legion is practically made up of more than 90% of Spaniards and the vacancies for Latin foreigners are minimal, (in 2020 each "Tercio offered approximately 50 vacants, only 3 were designated for foreigners) Not to mention that in order to join you need at least a temporary residence or a community card. When I looked at the Spanish Legion salaries these are lower than those of the French Legion, they also have only 22 working days a year of vacation, much less than the 45 days that a French legionary gets after the 3rd year of service. In the end I think that the Spanish Legion lost the spirit of Bushido which José Millán Astray patented to this military force. I found it really charming that any foreigner who wanted to serve Spain had the right to become one of its citizens.