Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language

In 1986, Spanish poet Dámaso Alonso unsuccessfully called for its dissolution, citing Enrique Fernández Lumba, a member who had dismissed the organization as a "relic".

[3] In 2008, El País reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission revoked the academy's corporate registration in 2003 due to its non-filing of annual returns.

In December 2007, former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed a directive in Spain requiring the teaching and learning of the Spanish language in the Philippine school system starting in 2008.

In the 2021 edition of the Crónica de la lengua española, published by the RAE, the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language announced that it had finished work on a Spanish–Chavacano dictionary, with the financial backing of ASALE.

[9] Romanillos, a historian who became an academic of the academy in 2005 and who previously served as its coordinator prior to becoming director,[9] is associate professor of Spanish, Italian and Latin at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he has taught for 30 years.