Gómez Rivera, as editor of Nueva era, a weekly and only remaining Spanish language newspaper in the Philippines,[REF] has used his editorials to attack government officials whom he accuses as "vile puppets of U.S. WASP neocolonialism," claiming proofs to bolster his accusations.
His efforts to bring back the Filipino national identity based on Spanish have led some critics, such as poet-academician Edmundo Farolán and poet-novelist Gilbert Luis R. Centina III, to call him El Don Quixote Filipino.[REF][REF] .