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UVA graduate student Robert Sanchis-Álvarez, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, was conducting research in his native Barcelona in 2023 when he discovered a rare 19th-century newspaper edited by Graciano Lopez Jaena, an early hero of the Philippine independence movement. The discovery sparked nearly two years of international collaboration between the University of Virginia and institutions in Spain and the Philippines, led by Sanchis-Álvarez, to preserve the 1893 issue of El Latigo Nacional.

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