A “Plaza Mexico” celebrating the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade was set up in Intramuros, at the banks of the Pasig. Sadly, the plaza had to be unceremoniously demol-ished to give way to a bridge from People’s China. MBOpinions READ:
Mexico sent its Escuadron 201 during WWII and it saw action over Pampanga during the Battle for Luzon. I was not aware of this until 1975 when I first landed in Mexico and met the survivors at an Independence Day re-ception in the Philippine Embassy. Outside the walls of Intramuros, across the street from the DPWH, behind the monument of Fr. Miguel Hidalgo, father of Mexican independence, there is a marker to commemorate the noble Escuadron 201.
Like the Philippines, Mexico recognized the People’s Republic of China in 1970 and closed its embassy in Taiwan where it maintains an office of Consular Services similar to our Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei. Once again since the galleon trade, Mexico is awash with Chinese tradeware. When Mexico was the Virreinato de la Nueva España , we were the Capitanía-General de Filipinas, two oceans away from Spain, so we had to be administered through Mexico and subsidized yearly with Mexican silver, then a fully-fledged international currency. The galleon trade, that amazing trans-Pacific enterprise between Acapulco and Manila enhanced life in three continents.
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