RIZAL AND THE

PROPAGANDA
MOVEMENT
 To prove his point and refute the accusations
of prejudiced Spanish writers against his
race, Rizal annotated the book, Sucesos de
las Islas Filipinas, written by the Spaniard
Antonio Morga. The book was an unbiased
presentation of 16th century Filipino culture.
Rizal through his annotation showed that
Filipinos had developed culture even before
the coming of the Spaniards.
 While annotating Morga’s book, he began
writing the sequel to the Noli, the El
Filibusterismo. He completed the Fili in July
1891 while he was in Brussels, Belgium. As in
the printing of the Noli, Rizal could not
published the sequel for the lack of finances.
Fortunately, Valentin Ventura gave him
financial assistance and the Fili came out of
the printing press on September 1891.
 The El Filibusterismo indicated Spanish
colonial policies and attacked the Filipino
collaborators of such system. The novel
pictured a society on the brink of a
revolution.
 To buttress his defense of the native’s pride
and dignity as people, Rizal wrote three
significant essays while abroad: The
Philippines a Century hence, the Indolence of
the Filipinos and the Letter to the Women of
Malolos. These writings were his brilliant
responses to the vicious attacks against the
Indio and his culture.
 While in Hongkong, Rizal planned the founding
of the Liga Filipina, a civil organization and the
establishment of a Filipino colony in Borneo. The
colony was to be under the protectorate of the
North Borneo Company, he was granted
permission by the British Governor to establish a
settlement on a 190,000 acre property in North
Borneo. The colony was to be under the
protectorate of the North Borneo Company, with
the "same privileges and conditions at those
given in the treaty with local Bornean rulers".
 Governor Eulogio Despujol disapproved the
project for obvious and self-serving reasons.
He considered the plan impractical and
improper that Filipinos would settle and
develop foreign territories while the colony
itself badly needed such developments.