Graciano López Jaena

Filipino journalist, orator, and reformist

Graciano López y Jaena (December 18, 1856 – January 20, 1896), commonly known as Graciano López Jaena (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈlopes ˈhaɪna]), was a Filipino journalist, orator, reformist, and national hero who is well known for his newspaper, La Solidaridad (December 13, 1888). Philippine historians universally regard López Jaena, alongside legal scholar Marcelo H. del Pilar and polymath José Rizal, as the definitive triumvirate of Filipino propagandists. Of these three towering ilustrados (Filipino educated elite), López Jaena was the first to depart for Europe and arrive in Spain in 1880, where he arguably initiated the concerted political action that became the Propaganda Movement.

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