The Nueva Biblia de las Américas is The Lockman Foundation's Latin American Spanish edition, built on the Foundation's earlier La Biblia de las Américas of 1986 — itself the product of roughly fifteen years' work by twenty-two translators and consultants, using the same word-for-word translation philosophy later carried into English as the New American Standard Bible. Rather than a fresh translation from Hebrew and Greek, the NBLA is a register revision: a twelve-member Lockman committee reworked La Biblia de las Américas's more Castilian-leaning Spanish into the familiar, modern Spanish spoken across Latin America, replacing forms such as the second-person plural "vosotros" with the more widely used "ustedes" and loosening constructions, such as the formulaic "y" and "sucedió que," that the earlier text had carried over literally from Hebrew narrative style. The Lockman Foundation's own permission-to-quote notice dates the finished text to 2005.
The textual basis follows directly from La Biblia de las Américas: the Old Testament rests on Rudolf Kittel's Biblia Hebraica, with the Dead Sea Scrolls consulted, and the New Testament generally on the 27th edition of Eberhard Nestle's Novum Testamentum Graece, with further manuscript evidence weighed where it bears on a particular reading. Some booksellers and Bible-software catalogues now group the Nueva Biblia de las Américas together with the Foundation's 2020 revision of the New American Standard Bible, marketing the two as a matched pair for English and Spanish readers of the same literal tradition; the translation itself, however, carries no later copyright date than 2005 in the Foundation's own notices.
The Spanish interface here opens by default on the Reina Valera 1909, a public-domain text from an entirely separate translation tradition and a century older; the Nueva Biblia de las Américas is reached instead from its own card in the translation grid. It shares little textual history with that edition, but a great deal with the New American Standard Bible — the same foundation, the same formal-equivalence method, and the same licensed rather than public-domain status, permitting up to 500 verses to be quoted without written permission, short of a complete book or a quarter of the quoting work. No parent is recorded in the lineage rungs: La Biblia de las Américas, the text it revises, is not itself held in this corpus, so a rung opened beneath an NBLA verse goes straight to the original-language floor marked ≈.