Hailed as "the last defender of Spanish in the Philippines," Guillermo Gómez Rivera makes a splash with a compendium of untold and withheld facts on Philippine history The Filipino State and Other Essays NEW YORK, NY: Guillermo Gómez Rivera is a well-known book author, linguist and academic in his native Philippines, but it is his life-long advocacy to reclaim the Hispanic soul of his country that has catapulted him to international fame. Various publications and institutions