10/05/2026
๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ'๐ฉ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฃ. ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐จ ๐ ๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐จ ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฃ ๐ฅ๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ก๐.
129 years ago today a man was carried on a hammock through the mountains of Maragondon, Cavite. Too wounded to walk. Betrayed. Sentenced to death.
That man was Andres Bonifacio the same man who started the Philippine Revolution with nothing but rage, a bolo, and a dream of freedom.
Born in Tondo, Manila in 1863, he was poor. No ilustrado background. No Spanish education. Just a warehouse worker who read every book he could find the French Revolution, the lives of great leaders and decided: "Bakit hindi tayo?"
In 1892, he co-founded the Katipunan a secret revolutionary society that would grow into thousands of ordinary Filipinos ready to die for their country. While Jose Rizal wrote, Bonifacio fought. He didn't ask Spain for reform. He demanded total freedom.
On August 23, 1896 he led the Cry of Pugad Lawin, tearing apart cedulas, declaring open war against 300 years of Spanish colonial rule. The revolution had begun.
But not everyone wanted him to lead it.
At the Tejeros Convention in 1897, Emilio Aguinaldo's faction outmaneuvered him politically. Bonifacio lost the election and when he questioned the results, he was arrested. Charged with treason. Against his own revolution.
On May 10, 1897 Andres and his brother Procopio were brought to the foot of Mt. Buntis. And executed.
He was 33 years old.
The man who gave Filipinos their revolution never lived to see independence.
His body was never found.
But his fire? That never died.
๐ฌ Comment "HERO" if you think Bonifacio deserves to be recognized as the TRUE first president of the Philippines.
