Efemérides filipinas

Semana was an illustrated magazine published weekly by Manuel Lopez Florez with important Spanish-speaking Filipinos as collaborators, such as Jaime Carlos de Veyra who had a column under the title Efemerides Filipinas (Philippine Anniversaries).In August 1954, De Veyra wrote two articles, “La denuncia del Katipunan” (refering to August 16, 1911) and “El grito de Balintawak” (August 26, 1896), in which he criticized the execution of Rizal as a product of fear and argued it was the cause of both the revolution and the Katipunan. He praised Bonifacio's abnegation and vision and argued that he was a poet “of action”.He also affirmed that the Katipunan was a “happy conception” and “a clear and righteous instinct in the direction of the people’s feelings”. Nevertheless, as a Hispanist he suggested Spain should have followed General Blanco’s motto (“Executing is easy, the hard thing to do is not to”), and expressed concern about the structural changes the revolution could have brought, for it “smelled of French revolution”.

Fecha

1954-08

Fuente

Semana Revista Ilustrada Hispano-Filipina, vol. VI, num. 153, August 19, 1954, pp. 50, 45, y vol VI, num. 154, August 26, 1954, p. 50. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Mojares, Resil B. “The Formation of Filipino Nationality under U.S. Colonial Rule”, Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 34, no. 1 (2006): 11–32.

Autoría

Jaime Carlos de Veyra

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Idioma

Spanish

Materia

Anniversaries

Cry of Balintawak

Efemérides Filipinas

Jaime Carlos de Veyra

Philippine Revolution