![]() ![]() He would, however, escape execution unlike GomBurZa, but the governor-general was adamant on setting an example and meted out the harshest sentence of banishment of ten years to Basa. ![]() In the reign of terror after the Cavite Mutiny of 1872, he was rounded up along with the legendary Fathers Gomez, Burgos and Zamora. Possession of these incendiary works was reason enough to clap you into jail, sometimes by way of the Spanish secret police.īasa’s reputation as an agitator and reformist put him squarely in the sights of the Spanish colonial government. It was a “skill”he would later use to smuggle in copies of the Noli and Fili, written by his friend Rizal. Basa y Enriquez (1839- 1907) was a generation ahead of National Hero José Rizal but the two men would be life-long friends.Ī wealthy merchant and a staunch liberal, Basa’s first brush with political activism was as the clandestine distributor of the newspaper El Eco Filipino. While published by his brother-in-law Frederico Lerena in Madrid, it was Basa who used his network to bring the paper to Manila. ![]()
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