The next time someone offers me a glass of basi, I will not refuse.
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Fourteen Ways of Remembering the 1807 Basi Revolt
Who could have imagined that native sugarcane wine would become a trigger for a Ilocos-wide revolt, which bicentennial we are commemorating this month? And why is it that all we have got to show for it, after 200 years, are 14 paintings that only few ordinary Filipinos have seen? BY PIO VERZOLA, JR. Northern Dispatch…