One of these families was the Guerrero family, who counted among its more prominent members the botanist, writer, and revolutionary leader Leon, (II) his painter brother Lorenzo, and writer and politician nephew Fernando, among others. The area around the plaza, which was known before as Plaza Ferguson, was a prominent neighborhood before the war where some influential families lived. Plaza Nuestra Señora de Guia, Ermita, Manila
Rodrigo Duterte, the Urban Roamer can’t help but be reminded of a figure in our history who, more than 60 years ago, held a somewhat similar view on what the Philippines’ foreign policy should be.Īnd for this story, we shall be roaming to the area around Plaza Nuestra Señora de Guia in Ermita, Manila, where this story began about 101 years ago.
But did you know that he served as public prosecutor in the notorious Nalundasan murder case, involving the future Philippine president? Did you also know that during his stint as ambassador to the Court of Saint James he wrote his prize-winning biography of Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal? Learn more about him in this fully documented biography recounting with much detail from his correspondence the genesis and evolution of his thinking about the First Filipino, which is the apposite title of his magnum opus.With so much buzz going on at this time of writing regarding the Philippines’ new foreign policy direction (which is, at the very least, leaning away from a traditional pro-US stance) as stated by Pres. In this first full-length biography, Guerrero's varied career as writer and diplomat is highlighted from an amateur student editor and associate editor of a prestigious magazine to ambassador to different countries that reflected then the exciting directions of Philippine foreign policy. Quezon and ending with President Ferdinand E.
Guerrero (1915–82), a top-notch writer and diplomat, served six Philippine presidents, beginning with President Manuel L.
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