Oh yeah. They’re taken back when gringos start speaking Spanish. If ever I’m around them and they’re speaking it I wait until the right moment to butt in and man are they shocked and red faced because they know I’ve cold busted them. For the record Mexicans and Puerto Ricans speak HORRIBLE Spanish. I had a year of Spanish a long time ago during my freshman year in Essex Catholic High School and my teacher was a Spanish woman from Spain who had a doctorate in about ten different languages.
Yes; I had a class where a Cuban teacher admitted that outside of Spain, Colombia had the best Spanish. I suspect the upper classes in most of Latin America speak it perfectly, while their massive underclasses speak Spanish in the same way our underclass speaks English.