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By Ambeth R. Ocampo
Textbook history is riddled with cardboard characters to hide the complexity of human nature that some teachers find difficult to explain. With the exception of the rivalry between the two Cavite factions of the Katipunan (Magdalo vs. Magdiwang), or the overblown but poorly explained conflict between Emilio Aguinaldo and Andres Bonifacio, or between Aguinaldo and Antonio Luna, all the characters in the story of the nation are selfless and only thought of the country’s interests. In order to make sense of the way we in the present deal with elections—local or national—we have to go back and confront the ghosts of the past.
Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Randy David
Of the varied fare produced by this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival, it was “El Presidente,” the film depicting the life of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, that I was most eager to watch. Films about a nation’s heroes are always tricky affairs. If they show nothing new about the persons or the circumstances in which they lived, they risk becoming utterly boring. If, on the other hand, they set out to project heroes in a new light, they are likely to face the question: What is fiction and what is fact?
Posted: December 29th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Ambeth R. Ocampo
Textbook history records the rivalry between two Cavite factions of the Katipunan. “Magdalo” was headed by Emilio Aguinaldo, who chose his nom de guerre Magdalo in honor of Mary Magdalene, the patron saint of Kawit.
Posted: December 20th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Bryan Anthony C. Paraiso
One of the iconic images of the 20th century is undoubtedly the raising of the US flag on the peak of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima Island during the American offensive against Japan at the Battle of Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945.
Posted: June 13th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Raul C. Pangalangan
It is said that “We, the People” means something different to the generation that risked life and limb to win the revolution, and that that meaning is diluted with each passing generation.
Posted: June 7th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Ambeth R. Ocampo
March 22 was Emilio Aguinaldo’s 143rd birthday. In his memoirs, Aguinaldo narrated how he came into the world with a bang in 1869. His mother had started a long and difficult labor, so to speed things up his father lit a big firecracker under their bed, producing a loud explosion that jolted baby Emilio from his mother’s womb!
Posted: March 27th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Ambeth R. Ocampo
Cabanatuan today is a first-class urban city that for a time was designated as the capital of Nueva Ecija. Its present claim to fame, if Wikipedia is to be trusted, is that it is the “Tricycle Capital of the Philippines,” which probably puts it in the running as one of the noisiest and most polluted cities in the country.
Posted: February 23rd, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Ambeth R. Ocampo
There are two statues of seated figures in flowing robes on the wide steps of the Supreme Court building in Manila. I don’t know if they are silent sentinels keeping watch on the entrance to the Court. Perhaps they represent historical figures, former justices who were there to protect the institution.
Posted: December 15th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Ambeth R. Ocampo
Public school elementary and high school students returned to their classrooms last week while college students, on the other hand, enjoyed two three-day weekends before finally hitting the books this week. Most stressed are teachers like me who have to deal with a new syllabus, a new set of students, and yet another semester. If students enjoy unscheduled holidays resulting from bad weather or some other excuse, teachers feel the same way but cannot express it.
Posted: November 9th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Amando Doronila
(Conclusion) AFTER THE capture of President Emilio Aguinaldo in Isabela in 1900, his military aide, Maj. Manuel L. Quezon, saw the futility of continuing the resistance to the American occupation army. In September of that year, he surrendered in Bataan. In his autobiography, “The Good Fight,” Quezon said of his surrender, “I wondered in my [...]
Posted: September 13th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Raul C. Pangalangan
WHAT AN irony that as we celebrate two historic moments, part of our territory is coveted by the most powerful nation in Asia, and our sovereignty and territorial integrity have to be guaranteed by yet another power which happens to be the most powerful in the world today. This week began with the 113th anniversary [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2011 in Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Ramon Farolan
This year we mark the sesquicentennial of the birth of our national hero Dr. Jose Rizal as well as the 113th anniversary of the proclamation of Philippine Independence by President Emilio Aguinaldo in Kawit, Cavite, in 1898. One of the first acts of the new republic was to declare Dec. 30 a national holiday in [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
