Yup! i've just read this article recently, it was also mentioned during the news that spanish subjects might be included again in college subjects, i think for minors only. ( karun wa na may spanish subject)
That is true, Spanish will become one of the official languages in the Philippines. When President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo went to visit Spain in 2004, His Majesty King Juan Carlos pleaded with the Madam President to consider re-instating Spanish as one of the official languages in the Philippines. It has been the plan for the Royal Spanish Cortes, under the auspices of His Majesty to re-institute good customs and relations with former Spanish colonies.
One of Spain's major foreign policy objectives since the advent of democracy has been to increase its influence in Latin America. Spain has a special interest in this area because of historical ties and a common linguistic, cultural, and religious heritage. In the post-Franco years, economic investments and diplomatic initiatives were added to the more nostalgic links between Spain and its former colonies.
Relations between Spain and Latin America have undergone profound transformation since Spain's imperial days. Resentment of Spain as the imperial power continued long after the colonial period, because many Latin Americans blamed Spain for their lack of progress and for their problems with democratization. In the early years of independence, the attitude of most Latin Americans was one of disdain for Spain. This changed, following the Spanish-American War in 1898. The devastating defeat inflicted upon Spain by the United States combined with increased United States interference in Latin America led the two Hispanic areas to draw closer together in the face of a common enemy. Both Spain and Latin America began to re-emphasize their common ties of culture, language, and religion, although trade, diplomatic, and political relations between the two areas remained minimal.
During the 1950s, modernized methods of communications and transportation facilitated closer contacts between Spain and Latin America. Trade increased, and Spain's rapid economic growth in the 1960s and the 1970s enabled the country to approach its relations with Latin America from a position of greater economic strength. A paradoxical foreign policy phenomenon during this period was the refusal of the fiercely anticommunist Franco to break off relations with Fidel Castro Ruz's Marxist Cuba. In this instance, historical ties appeared to take precedence over ideology.
After Franco's death, Spain's transition to a democratic form of government was paralleled by the establishment of various forms of democratic rule in some Latin American countries. The timing of these governmental changes was largely coincidental, although Spain offered its transition process as an example for Latin America to follow.
Concerning the Philippines, which was treasured by the Spanish Empire as
"la joya del imperio español" (The Jewel of the Spanish Empire), Spain has always resented its loss of its longest-ruled colony to the Americans in the 1898 Spanish-American War and in the Spanish-Philippine Revolutionary War. Since the fall of Marcos, the Spanish government has tried to implement a policy known as "vieja táctica de la amistad" (old friendship). To regain the warmth and loyalty, friendship of the Philippines. The loss of the Philippines has always been a nationalistic etch to the Spaniards, which many regarded the Philippines as a Spanish province, and to this day many still regard it as the 'lost Spanish Bastion of the Orient'. There are Spaniards of the older generation, to this day, that still regard the Philippines as part of Spain.
King Juan Carlos' request to the Madam President Macapagal-Arroyo is a manifestation of the old Spanish generation that still reflects a longing for the Philippines.
Their view is to 're-connect' the umbilical cord that once connected Spain with the Philippines, which was severed over a century ago.
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