Cuando tropas Hispano-Filipinas ganaron Indochina para los franceses
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Semana de Manila was linked to Spanish Francoist foreign propaganda, the Spanish-speaking community of Manila, and the Catholic Church, especially the Spanish Friars, which had played an important role in Filipino history. On September 7, 1950, J.E. Casariego published a historical article about the Cochinchina campaign (1858-1862), a joint naval expedition force on behalf of the French Empire and the Kingdom of Spain against the Nguyễn Vietnamese state that inaugurated the French conquest of Vietnam.
Beyond the factual information in the article (most of the Spanish troops were in fact Filipinos), Casariego showed both resentment towards France (to whom, he argues, Spain gifted an empire) and a staunch defense of colonial and “civilizing intervention”. This suggests that for many of the hispano-centric Filipinos, who identified with the Catholic religion and were somehow nostalgic for the Spanish Empire, the advance of Communism during the Cold War (and specifically the conflict in Vietnam) were seen as a menace to civilization, akin to the paganism that in 1857 burned Spanish missionaries in Tonkin, and, therefore a movement backward in the universal history that Spanish (and in general European) colonialism was seen to have introduced into the Philippines and Asia.Source
“¡Cuando tropas Hispano-Filipinas ganaron Indochina para los franceses”, Semana, vol. VI, num. 90, August 19, 1954, pp. 28-29. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Schumacher, John N. (1975). "Cruzada Espanola En Vietnam: Campana De Cochinchina", Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 23.3: 384-385.
Torres-Pou, Joan. (2013). "Las crónicas de la Guerra de Cochinchina", in Asia en la España del siglo XIX. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.