Samahang Pangkasaysayan ng Bulacan

Honoring the Life and Legacy of Dr. Eli S. Dela Cruz

We celebrate the remarkable life of Dr. Eli S. Dela Cruz, we reflect on his profound contributions as a leader, professor, mentor, historian, friend, and public servant. His tireless dedication to promoting arts, culture, and tourism in Bulacan has left an indelible mark on our province and beyond. Through his visionary work, he brought Bulacan's rich history and heritage to the forefront, reminding us all of the importance of preserving our cultural identity.

As a public servant and recently recognized as the Best Tourism Officer in the Philippines, Dr. Dela Cruz played a pivotal role in positioning Bulacan as a beacon of historical and cultural pride. His efforts have drawn both local and international attention, enriching not only the tourism landscape but also the cultural consciousness of our community.

Thank you, Dr. Eli S. Dela Cruz, for your lifelong service in championing arts, culture, and tourism. Your passion and legacy will continue to inspire generations to come, shaping the future while honoring the past.

Mahal ka namin Doc Eli.

Hangang sa muli,
SAMPAKA

In Memoriam: Temario C Rivera (1947-2024)
In loving memory of

Temario C. Rivera, PhD
1947-2024
Former Professor of Political Science
Chair, Department of Political Science (1993-1997)

His wake will be held at the Haven of Angels Memorial Chapels in Sumulong Highway starting 20 September 2024 (Friday).

PAANYAYA
Ang lahat po ay inaanyayahan na dumalo sa ating taunang Pambansang Kumperensiya na gaganapin bukas hanggang sa Setyembre 6,2024 mula alas 8 ng umaga hanggang alas 5 ng hapon.

HISTORIOGRAPHY 101

Foundation in the Building of a Nation State, 1565-1734

1) In 1565, the process of creating civic society and polity started with the transformation of kinship groups known as barangays into pueblos and provincias centered around the plaza complex.

2) In 1734, Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay and Francisco Suarez produced a map under the supervision of Fr. Murillo Velarde that defined the metes and bounds, and important place names for what would become Las Islas Filipinas.

Reflecting on their significance, the ilustrados imagined these as the most important legacies of Spain to an emerging nation state in the 19th century.

HISTORIOGRAPHY 101

Peopling of the Homeland

Our homeland had evolved from climate change over several millenia...from extreme periods of cold weather and low water level in the oceans, associated with the glacial periods to rise of sea water during the heating of the earth.

It was during the glacial period, ...when the oceans dipped up to 100 meters...when ancient ancestors of man roamed every corner of the corner of the planet where they could forage for food.

It was in those times when the earliest inhabitants reached our archipelago...trapped later by the rise in sea water towards the end of the glacial period 12,000 years ago.

Archeologists from UP christened them as HOMO LUZONENSIS, whose fossil remains were found in Cagayan.

HISTORIOGRAPHY 101 (2)

Colonization, the human element

It was a hundred years after the Age of Discovery when Miguel de Cervantes wrote on the adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha in 1600 This novel could be read as a caricature of an age that produced such men as Magellan...and of a society influenced by the Renaissance view that man, the individual, could dominate nature through his will.

How explain for instance the orgullo of a Hernan Cortez who commanded his men.. "burn the ships..". upon reaching Vera Cruz (at the western edge of present day Mexico) in his march to conquer the Aztec Empire, with but 100 Spaniards and another 500 soldiers?

Or Magellan's persistence in rounding the cape of the Americas that now carries his name?

It was from there that Magellan traversed the unknown, the wide and endless ocean which he christened the Pacific. He was determined to prove that, indeed as Copernicus had imagined, the earth was round.

SAMPAKA CHRONICLES

Kainan para sa Balikbayan, Taliptip, Bulakan, Oktubre 1994

Nagkakaroon ng biglaang pulong kapag may balikbayan tulad ngayon nang bumisita si Mamerto MC Canlas mula San Francisco. Pinakain namin siya ng inihaw na bulig na isinawsaw sa buro, courtesy ng kuya ni Apolinsrio Ka Inar Bulaong.

Sa larawan, nakatayo si MC habang nasa foreground si Pangulong Atty Cris Santiago at kaliwa, si Jaime Veneracion.

HISTORIOGRAPHY 101 (1)

Innovations in Shipbuilding 15th and 16th Centuries

The Portuguese caravel and later the Spanish galleon were products of the mix in Mediterranean and north sea designs.

The Mediterranean design had imported from the Arab Muslims the lateen or fore and aft sail, a triangular sail which was of Indian origin.

From northern Europe, the Mediterranean-based seafarers took the axial rudder operated from inside the ship. It was also called centerline rudder. Aside from this, they also adopted the strong hull design, clinker-built or planks overlapping similar to tiles on the roof... the design that was suited to the harsh waves of northern seas.

The mating of northern seas design and of the Mediterranean galleys produced the caravels and galleons of the Iberians .

Below is the synthesis by Fernand Braudel in his The Stuctures of Everyday life, 1979, pp. 403-404.

HISTORIOGRAPHY 101

Spanish Motives in the Colonization of the Indias

Totally forgotren in the 500th Anniversary Celebration (Magellan circumnavigation of the Globe) was the broad framework underlying the Spanish project.

1) Spain just emerged from over 700 years of Moro ocupation. It had been imbued with the daring of warriors and the naval innovations that made long distance travel possible

2) More important however was their view that to dislodge and truly defeat the Moros, they needed to bypass the land- based trade routes the latter controlled...from India and China going to Europe......through the oceans, initially through the Cape of Good Hope and later, through the Atlantic and the Pacific.

They were somewhat distracted by the Mexican and Latin American opportunities but the strategic goal remained.

In what follows is an excerpt from a 1774 treatise of a Renaissance Friar Fr Francisco Antolin OP (as translated by Wm Henry Scott, 1979)

VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO, MANDALA 2024

MANDALA FESTIVAL, 10 MAYO 2024
SM Pulilan, Bulacan

Nakalimutan na ngayong araw ay anibersaryo ng pagpatay sa Supremo...baka ganoon talaga ang nagbabagong sining sa kasalukuyang panahon.

Ilang pagmumuni habang hinihintay ang simula ng programa

BALER SA SAN MIGUEL DE MAYUMO

Malapit na ang taunang paggunita nito...Hunyo 28 na... handa na ba ang PAMANA?

MONTALBAN NOTES

Salamat NHCP sa pagkilala, Abril 25, 2024

SAMPAKA CHRONICLES

In 1995, the presidency of Regulus Ted Tantoco coincided with the preparations for the forthcoming Centennial of the Philippine Revolution of 1896. In this rare minutes of meeting can be read the activities of Sampaka in line with the declaration of Malolos as a Historic Zone such as putting markers and memorials. This was the subject of Pres. Tantoco's dissertation for his doctoral studies.

ANGONO BINANGONAN NOTES

Guido Hacienda

Guido Hacienda: Social Timebomb?
By Leo P. Gonzaga

The hacienda story at the turn of the century yields a virtual deluge of details. As reconstructed by Lopez, the town most affected by the controversy was made up in the early 1900s by Estancia de Binangonan and Estancia de Riga. From these two evolved Estancia de Angono, with Justo Guido, son of Francisco, as claimant to ownership. The Guido sired many children, legitimate and illegitimate, through many generations, among them Alfredo, Benito, Gregorio and Hermogenes. Not all of them got a piece of the action, the vastness of hacienda, notwithstanding.
In 1942, Jose Roxas and wife Emilia, who were in the list of “legitimate heirs’ of the Guidos, bought half of the 3,181 hectares Estancia de Angono and subdivided it into 21 lots of varying sizes. In 1976, they resold the property to Pacil Management Corp.. Eventually, 14 of the 21 lots with a combined size of 2,211 hectares ended up with the Interport in exchange for the latter’s stocks.
According to Gregorio, there are two portions of the Guido Hacienda. The smaller but developed and cleaned-titled Estancia de Angono and the bigger but underdeveloped land in Binangonan where there are many claimants and an overlapping of titles and tax declarations. Most of the rival claims turned out to be from heirs of Francisco and Justo who did not benefit from the hacienda.

Mystery and Hanky-Panky
The Guido Hacienda story is not without an intriguing part. Lopez, in his write up cited certain vital document which mysteriously disappeared, then reappeared also mysteriously. The reappearance took place in what he described as “perfect timing” for the Guidos, i.e., right before the case was raised to the court, the documents were later presented in court as proof that the Guidos owned the hacienda.
Not only mysterious but also suspicious is how the Guidos managed to get transfer certificate of title for the property. In his account, Arago noted that their petition for a TCT was submitted to then Land registration Commissioner Gregorio Bilog Jr. in August 1974. Bilog consulted with then Justice Secretary Vicente Abad Santos who in turn, asked then Solicitor-General Estelito Mendoza to look into the matter in a memorandum the following year, Mendoza rejected as “phony” an old document which was being used by the Guidos as basis for their petition.
In March 1976, the Guidos filed the petition with the Register of Deeds in Morong. Despite the Mendoza memorandum, then Deputy Register of Deeds Pricilla Tech issued the petition in so quick a time and so trouble-free a procedure that Arago smells hanky-panky. The TCT in the name of Francisco and Hermogenes was later followed by 21 more such certificates in the name of other Guidos. “Just like that,” says Arago of the ease they were issued.

Presidential Decree
There are other names, events and dates to wrestle with. President Ramos ordered in 1976 that Spanish Titles must be authenticated within a specific deadline. The Roxases initially applied for an original title, later changed the application to a reconstituted title after a research they themselves commissioned revealed the existence of the Spanish land grant to Francisco.
Again according to Gregorio, he and his father Benito declined to join Alfredo in pursuing the ownership claim up to court, not having seen the supposed documents. With the disputes resulting in a freeze on titling of land even outside the Guido Hacienda, Gregorio says he cannot get titles for the land and home he inherited from Benito in barangay Tayuman of Binangonan. Also adversely affected is current Development Bank of the Philippines Chairman Alfredo Antonio, who inherited a piece of land from his father in barangay Darangan. “I cannot get my property titled,” he told this writer.
The court battle began in1979 when the office of the Solicitor-General filed a case in the then Court of First Instance, now Regional Trial Court, in Pasig. He questioned the authenticity of the Spanish title and the American decree on behalf of thousands of affected Binangonan residents. That court in May 1989 upheld the authenticity of the title and decree. In June of the same year, the case was raised to the Court of Appeals which turned down the petition for reconsideration. Then the Supreme Court in November 1991 declared as legal the reconstitution of the title and decree.
Qualified Exemptions
Both the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court decided to honor the rights of land occupants who either have existing titles or can prove occupancy for at least 30 years. The problem, as pointed out by former provincial legal counsel Carmelo Arcilla, is that many of the residents have no existing titles apart from the tax declarations; and proving occupancy for the prescribed minimum period is a tedious process for the affected individuals, perhaps even requiring massive surveying which may take years or decades.
The court decisions have raised a number of disturbing questions. He asks how Interport, for instance, which never paid taxes nor occupied or developed the land, can become a legitimate owner of the land occupied for decades by taxpaying residents. Raising the issue of “eminent domain” in the case of the Spanish title and vis-à-vis the Guidos, Atty. Arcilla points out that they never exercised dominion over the property in question and, therefore, have never been and cannot be owners of the land.
To him, a land title not based on ownership evidences is “nothing”. Not a single square inch of the town has no claimant-possessor. If the court decisions are to be given substance, there is nothing in Binangonan that is available to the Guidos, Interport and Rommel.

Economic Stagnation
There is an appeal for reconsideration of the ruling of the high tribunal. So the case is not finally settled yet. In the meantime, the Bureau of Lands has stopped accepting applications and acting on already-filed ones even on areas outside the Guido Hacienda. As a result, the town is making little or even no headway it its pursuit of faster economic development. Interport, too, is having problems in putting up a so called “Satellite City” in barangay Bilibiran. Its stockholders include mega-rich Filipino Chinese like Robert Coyuito, Jack Gaisano and Henry Sy. Filipinos on its board also belong to name-droppables in the business community, like William Gabaldon, Manuel Recto and Francisco Villanueva. Either they are not putting big-bucket money in the company, or the financing requirement is so huge that Interport has found it necessary to invite Malaysian investors.
The “Satellite City” as envisaged will contain plush residential communities and commercial establishments as well as a hi-tech agro-industrial park. Or some kind of a compensating balance for Binangonan which will, at least in the project, get a spillover from Metro Manila’s excess population with medium means in spending, though it cannot get a single corporate relocator from the metropolis.
Grim Prospect
It has been observed that the frequency of fence-building, attempts by Interport was quite high during the time it was asking the Malaysian to invest in the project. Company officials got haled to the Securities & Exchange Commission to answer charges of “inside trading” after it was found out that Interport share accumulation at marked-down prices took place on the basis of pre-knowledge of negotiations with the Malaysians. Up to now, investments from them are a question mark.
Not much is known about Rommel and any of its board members and officers. But the company is also said in the market for equity partners, local and/or foreign. It is, like Interport, also resorting to fence building off and on presumably to impress prospective investors that it owns land in Binangonan.
Anything can happen when fences are built by Interport and Rommel then dismantled by the police. As bloody incident after incident amply show, squatters fight eviction, though their right to stay where they are is anchored only on law which says they cannot be evicted unless provided with alternative sites. People in four Rizal towns covered by the Guido Hacienda are no squatters. They are tax-paying, long time occupants. They will fight. So, while the prospect for the province is that of continuing to be a laggard in Calabarzon, what stares particularly Binangonan in the face is economic stagnation or worse, violence.
By: Calumpang Kong Hirang/Hergonzaga Galang
[Admin 18]

Taga-Binangonan Ako!
SC decision in QC land case may create chaos

http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20101006-296215/SC-decision-in-QC-land-case-may-create-chaos

PS. This link is not related to Guido land case. However, since subject land case is a friar land, this link might be of help.
[Admin01]

Taga-Binangonan Ako!
On April 1994, ERRDC acquired a vast tract of land situated at Binangonan, Rizal with aggregate area of Nine Hundred Seventy Five Hectares (975 has) from the estate of Alfredo Guido, Sr. (formerly Hacienda De Guido Property). Our company encountered lots of legal problems from property encroachment by Sta. Lucia, Antipolo Property Inc., Grandspan Corporation, Rizal Cement and many other tax declarants which were commonly known as bigtime squatters.

A portion of the above-mentioned property covering an aggregate area of One Hundred hectares (100 has), more or less, was sold by EERDC to First Alliance Property Ventures, Inc. which is a joint group of local Filipino Chinese Developer and Taiwanese Investors for a total consideration of Ninety Five Million Pesos (Php 95,000,000.00).

Furthermore, when ERRDC encountered difficulties in segregating the one Hundred Hectares (100has) from the mother titles due to some legal technicalities from tax declarants and squatters, said sale was instead converted into Joint Venture Agreement between ERRDC and First Alliance Property Ventures, Inc. to jointly develop and sell Four Hundred Fifty hectares (450 has) of open area within the whole Seven (7) titles property of Binangonan properties.

Said Four HUndred Fifty hectares (450 has) property was appraised by RGV Appraisal Group, Inc. at Four Hundred Fifty Pesos (Php 450.00) per square meter or a total of Two Billion Twenty Five Million Pesos (Php 2,025,000,000.00) market value. The joint venture has sunk into the project a total of One Hundred Sixty Five Million (Php 165,000,000.00) and has temporarily slowed down on the operation during the economic crises in 1998. Aside from legal squabbles with some big developer who have encroached on our property and alsofrom the legal petition of the troublesome Guido's family's heirs, the case had to drag on up to the present.

in a Court Order dated April 21, 1999, ERRDC was recognized by the Regional Trial Court, Branch 155, Pasig City as SUBROGEE of the subject Nine Hundred Seventy Five hectares (975 has) formerly Hacienda de Guido. and finally, on April 27,2005, the Supreme Court decision with finality which decided the legality of E. Rommel Realty

Reference: http://e-rommel.com/History.htm

[Admin01]

Fromand Development Corporation (EERDC) as the SUBROGEE of the formerly Hacienda de Guido.

Silverio Diwas
Who owns lot 1 (the lot that covers the Tayuman Elementary School) and how could the owner be contacted. email; [email protected]

Misty Taño
@ [100001222728621:2048:Chedeng]\

Maui MG
IN THAT PROPERTY HACIENDA DE ANGONO THE HEADED LEGAL HIERS FROM FRANCISCO THE LEGITIMATE OWNER IS COMING BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES TO CLAIM WHAT IS FOR "Legal ligitimate HIERS OF FRANCISCO ARRANGE THIS PROBLEM.

Sher Mg
Sher Mg sherwin Sherwin MGuido. Hello government in charge and fellow Filipino s.

Sher Mg
my Grandfather “Humble Benito Guido was the last full Ownership Heir of

Sher Mg
Hacienda de Guido in angono and Binangonan rizal Rizal .
as Las a child atage stage 12 yearsold granpa first made a temporary dontation of The Palenke Angono , so Our Temporary tenants the farmers Could have a place for them To have a place to sell their harvest ...

Sher Mg
since early 1900’s , Grampa Benito Guido has been the official benificiery

Sher Mg
of our family properties ,

Sher Mg
our family reach from Antipolo , angono and binangonan.

Sher Mg
all the other claimants for our property in the past even by people with same last name or Ising the name by other people are all fake .
we want all our property returned to us in right manner.

Sher Mg
i plan to turn Hacienda de guido or hacienda de angono Angono into a mini -hongkong or tokyo modern and natural .

Sher Mg
itwill look like a beatiful beautiful toyko and hongkong skyline. I will also build buildings and hotels on the hilltop by the golf course . Althe way to to the Way to the waterfront touching the laguna de bay.

Sher Mg
super our family and My humble grandfather Benito s dream
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Marso 14, 2024, Marikina Polytechnic College, 9am

Lunsad-hingal muna po tayo...

Discover our Austrinesian Roots:

leadership...means a lot....

The OCTA Research December 2023 Fourth Quarter TUGON NG MASA (TNM) Survey released on Tuesday showed that CHED garnered a performance rating of 82% and a trust rating of 83%.

The result of the latest OCTA survey is a manifestation of the effectiveness of the services and programs of the Commission. Despite the criticism on the feasibility of our programs, it’s assuring to know that the confidence of the people remained.

PROVINCIA DE CALUMPIT 1580s

Sa mapang ito mahihinuha kung bakit Calumpit ang ninais ng mga Castila na gawin itong lunduyan ng sibilisasyong kolonyal. Pansinin kung paanong nagtagpo dito ang Rio de Quingua at Rio de Pampanga bukod pa sa ilang mga estero.

PEOPLE'S INITIATIVE 2024

I suddenly saw a posts on a debate with an adviser ofva top senator advocating Constitutional Reform but who had not gone into a study of our political history nor made comparative study of our neighbors like Malaysia, Brunei etc. Am sure thst they had not heard of Bhumiputra for one:

This was a fragment of our exchsnge:

"M into profiling and not modeling... With what might work and not what is beautiful in theory.

Okay with me if you continue learning from foreign models..

But think of the so called 100 per cent foreign investment.. If such is included in what you will discuss, you open yourself to some energetic opposition.

In the US, Unioil was bought by the Chinese.. but the government rejected the transaction. What more, if someone would buy Lockheed or Boeing, do you realize what the government will do?

Bakit tayo papayag... Debateng Ala Parity iyan? At ang project mo na structural reform ay maglalagay sa atin sa kumunoy.

Gabaldon School in Bigaa, Bulacan, American Regime