KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 16 2021 (IPS) – Globalisation’s beginnings are symbolised by Ferdinand Magellan’s near circumnavigation of the world half a millennium ago. But its history is not simply of connection and trade, but also of intolerance, exploitation, slavery, violence, aggression and genocide.
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Magalhães, conquistador
The Philippines today struggles with this history. Some Filipinos highlight the warm native reception extended to Magellan’s fleet and the first Catholic mass, reminiscent of American Thanksgiving mythology. For others, native resistance to conquistador aggression, captured by Danilo Madrid Gerona’s biography of Magellan, is more memorable.
Magellan, Inquisition and Globalisation
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Travesía conmemora 500 años del viaje de Magallanes
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Global pandemic meets 500th anniversary of 1st global voyage – The Manila Times
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Global pandemic meets 500th anniversary of 1st global voyage
by Christopher Torchia, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 31, 2020 10:31 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 31, 2020 at 10:44 am EDT
The Statue of the Sentinel of Freedom, or the Lapu Lapu Monument, stands in Manila, Philippines, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. In 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines designated April 27 as a national holiday to honor Lapu-Lapu, the chief whose men killed Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
MEXICO CITY Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation of the expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, the pandemic looms as a Spanish navy tall ship sails to commemorate the feat.