Ni RENE BOY ABIVA (Para sa Negros 14) Pinakawalan ni Haring Sauron ang higit isandaan sa pinakamakamandag-pinakawalang puso’t kaluluwa niyang sahurang mamamatay tuwing kinsenas-katapusan sa payak-pobreng lupain ng mga magsasaka ng Canlaon, Manjuyod, at Santa Catalina habang ang buong mundo’y tahimik na inuugoy sa kama na yari sa hinabing hibla at tinik ng makahiya; at…
By DEE AYROSO
When the Spaniards came to Buglas in April 1565, they saw dark-skinned natives and ironically cut them off from the act of naming one’s land after one’s labor. Buglas in Hiligaynon is precisely the act of cutting off. The Spanish conquerors, needy and exploitative as they were, re-named the land Negros to naturalize a violent…
“This is unconscionable.”