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Article: Masonic myths and revolutionary feats in Negros Occidental.
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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In the sugar-producing province of Negros Occidental in the central Philippines, a monument stands in the town centre of Bago extolling the local hero of a one-day revolution that brought down Spanish rule in this province in 1898, a sugar planter named Juan Araneta, who appears in a triumphal pose astride his horse. The statue resembles other war memorials of its kind, and on the face of it, there is nothing exceptional about this monument, which was erected soon after Araneta's death in 1924, except possibly that the plaque is in Spanish and begins with the words "In Memoriam", giving it more the aura of a tombstone rather than of a triumphal conquest. While very few ...