Leon Kilat

For more than 300 years, colonial Spain subjugated the country using violent means to impose its will on a submissive native population. As a consequence, thousands died of starvation and sheer exhaustion in the construction of their stone edifices, like the churches, convents and ayuntamientos, and many more were traumatized by the experience. But in 1896, there emerged a consciousness of nationhood which became the seed of the revolution. In 1898, the Spaniards were on the brink of defeat...