CRISOSTOMO VILLA is nom de plume of one of Bicolandia’s fiercest writers who lionizes Rizal’s Crisostomo Ibarra, and adulates the Philippine’s most acerbic poet Jose Garcia Villa.
Thus, the melodious name Crisostomo Villa was adopted to express in his write-ups Crisostomo Ibarra’s feverish nationalism but in the passionate poetic words of Jose Garcia Villa. This pseudonym had appeared for about 10 years in some Bicol daily and weekly tabloids as columnist using as he did brawling language and biting opinion bringing intense debilitating effects into the acidic visceral of ruthless local public officials and crucible to the obtaining social degeneration.
Crisostomo Villa’s pungent choice of words against social and political inequities works ”like the iniquitous wallop of the east wind that sweeps monkeys off the trees”, in the words of his friend who was a member of the Provincial Board of Camarines Sur.
At one time at the height of martial law regime in the country, Crisostomo Villa had directly caused a Regional Director in Bicol to resign from his office after refusing to accept a big amount of largesse from the Dictatorship during the snap presidential elections in 1986.