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Edited by Foro para la Paz en el Mediterráneo (Forum for Peace in the Mediterranean)
ISBN: 978-84-606-8799-3
Legal deposit: MA 933-2015
The authors, the coordinator and the editor allow the reproduction, the storage in an information system and the total or partial transmission of this publication by any means, electronic
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to the authors and the coordination to the Forum for Peace in the Mediterranean. NOTE OF THE SCRIPTWRITER : The screenplay is based on historical contrasted events,
taking into consideration the book called “Los primeros de Filipinas y Málaga” by the same
author than the script of the comic. We allowed us some artistic licenses only for making
more comprehensible the Spanish feat to the public.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : The Forum for the Peace in the Mediterranean wished to express its appreciation to the translated by Beatriz Sedano Lara for & Pamela A. Bigornia
Dear friend,
You have just read the fascinating story of some Spaniards, some of them from Malaga, who
crossed the oceans to reach the Philippines.
As you have read, the Philippines was given its name by Ruy Lopez de Villalobos, a native of Malaga and one of the great discoverers of the Pacific Ocean in the XVI century. He died far-away
from Spain.
The lesson we must learn from those sailors and soldiers is that with perseverance and sacrifice
there is no obstacle that cannot be surpassed. The life that you will go through is filled with difficulties but if you arm yourself with the spirit of resilience of those Spaniards, rest assured that you
will succeed.
Basques, Galicians, Andalucians, Catalans and people from all over Spain united to travel around
the world and arrive where no European had been.
Let us learn from it.
Warm regards
Elias Bendodo Benasayag, President of the Provincial Government of Malaga
Foro para la Paz en el Mediterrámeo
English Edition printed by
Translation by
With the collaboration of
FORO PARA LA PAZ EN EL MEDITERRÁNEO On October 19, 2011, the Ayuntamiento de Málaga, the University of Malaga, the Cámara de Comercio de Málaga, the Real Club Mediterráneo, Unicaja, AECYR and www.belt.es signed a framework agreement on collabora on in order to give a legal force to the Foro, although its ac vity dates back several years before. The first clause of the agreement s pulates that the said ins tu ons are aware of the need to search for models that shall guarantee stable co‐existence as part of mul lateralism where human rela ons are developed. The ul mate purpose of these models of stable co‐existence is to build and ACHIEVE PEACE in Spain and other com‐
muni es and regions with special impact on socie es that maintain geographical, cultural and economic es or of any other nature. This model of co‐existence is based on three elements: dialogue, coopera on and security, making necessary its pro‐
mo on not only in the country but also in other communi es with which there is a special and dis nguishing geo‐
graphic bond: the Mediterranean Sea
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