The Philippines, a Southeast Asian archipelago of more than 7,000 islands, is like Latin American countries a former colony in the Spanish Empire. The Philippines was under Spanish rule for three ...

ON July 16, 2025, at 4:00 pm, Instituto Cervantes will hold the seminar “De Magallanes al Bulevar España: breve historia del español en Filipinas,” featuring prestigious speakers from the University ...

Many think of Latinos as people with roots in Mexico, Cuba or other Latin American countries. That definition, though, leaves out Filipino Americans, whose culture was shaped by centuries of Spanish ...

THE chief obstacle to social and political progress in the Philippine Islands is “caciquism,” the term by which “bossism” is known in those regions. Bossism, as it is now applied in the United States, ...