Guerra Santa, revolución cristiana

The Spanish civil war (1936-1939) had a huge impact on the Philippines due to the mobilization of the Spanish community of the archipelago, which organized publications such as ¡Arriba España!, strongly supported by the Foreign Services of the Spanish Fascist Party Falange Española. This irregular publication (it published around two numbers a week) published war reports, telegrams, and news both from Spain and the Philippines with a strongly propagandistic tone.On Christmas eve, ¡Arriba España! published a reprint of the famous poster “1 Cruzada. Espana orientadora espiritual del mundo”, which summarized the ideology of the soon-to-be Fascist victor of the conflict: a Christian revolution born out of a military conflict defined as a holy war against communism, but also as the fulfillment of the historical destiny of Spain, identified with Catholicism, hierarchy, and aristocracy. Same as Pope Pius XI, whose words were republished on the same page, many Spanish-speaking Filipinos prayed for Franco and saw in him an alternative both to Soviet communism and American democracy. Nevertheless, its idealization of the Spanish colonial past, as well as its imperialistic undertones, would alienate many Filipinos from any kind of Hispanic ethnicity linked to Spain.

Fecha

1938-12-24

Fuente

“Guerra Santa, revolución cristiana”, ¡Arriba España!, vol. III, 24 December 1938 (suplemento), p. 1. In Literatura filipina en español.

Relación

Graham Helen. 2005. The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
Rodao, Florentino. 1995. “Spanish Falange in the Philippines, 1936-1945”, Philippine Studies, 43(1), pp. 3-26.
Rodao, Florentino. 1997. “Spanish language in the Philippines: 1900-1940”, Philippine studies, 45(1), pp. 94-107.

Editor

Digitized and stored at Portal de literatura filipina en español, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.Physical Copy at Hemeroteca Municipal de Madrid.

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Idioma

Spanish

Materia

¡Arriba España!

Falangist press in the Philippines

Francoism

Spanish Civil War in the Philippines