Filipinas Dentro De Cien Años

Por Jose Rizal

Filipinas es un país insular situado en el Sudeste Asiático, sobre el océano Pacífico. Su capital es Manila.
En 1521, el explorador portugués Fernando de Magallanes llegó a Filipinas y tomó posesión de las islas para España.
A finales del siglo XIX estalló la Revolución filipina, apoyada por Estados Unidos, y posteriormente la Guerra hispano-estadounidense que dio lugar a la cesión de las islas por España a EE. UU. en 1898. Las desavenencias entre la nueva República Filipina y EE. UU. desembocaron en la Guerra filipino-estadounidense que acabó con la victoria estadounidense en 1903.
De esta forma, los Estados Unidos reemplazaron a España como potencia dominante
En Filipinas dentro de cien años (1889) José Rizal vaticina el rechazo de los filipinos a la posibilidad de caer bajo soberanía americana.

José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, más conocido como José Rizal (Calambá, 19 de junio de 1861–Manila, 30 de diciembre de 1896), fue un médico (se hizo oftalmólogo en Madrid), escritor, pintor, lingüista y político filipino.
Es considerado el héroe nacional de Filipinas y fue fundador en 1892 de la Liga Filipina.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Passerino
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 31 oct 2019
• ISBN: 9788835326779

Jose Rizal

José Rizal (1861-1896) was a Filipino poet, novelist, sculptor, painter, and national hero. Born in Calamba, Rizal was raised in a mestizo family of eleven children who lived and worked on a farm owned by Dominican friars. As a boy, he excelled in school and won several poetry contests. At the University of Santo Tomas, he studied philosophy and law before devoting himself to ophthalmology upon hearing of his mother’s blindness. In 1882, he traveled to Madrid to study medicine before moving to Germany, where he gave lectures on Tagalog. In Heidelberg, while working with pioneering ophthalmologist Otto Becker, Rizal finished writing his novel Touch Me Not (1887). Now considered a national epic alongside its sequel The Reign of Greed (1891), Touch Me Not is a semi-autobiographical novel that critiques the actions of the Catholic Church and Spanish Empire in his native Philippines. In 1892, he returned to Manila and founded La Liga Filipina, a secret organization dedicated to social reform. Later that year, he was deported to Zamboanga province, where he built a school, hospital, and water supply system. During this time, the Katipunan, a movement for liberation from Spanish rule, began to take shape in Manila, eventually resulting in the Philippine Revolution in 1896. For his writing against colonialism and association with active members of Katipunan, Rizal was arrested while traveling to Cuba via Spain. On December 30, 1896, he was executed by firing squad on the outskirts of Manila and buried in an unmarked grave.