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Lea’s ‘Bayan Ko’ stirs memories
As I watched Lea Salonga sing “Bayan Ko” during the Requiem Mass for former President Cory Aquino on national television, I could not avoid reminiscing the street protests in the 1980s.
Sen. Mar Roxas on EDSA: Ooops, sorry
Who was Epifanio de los Santos, the person after whom was named EDSA, the street bisecting Metro Manila that became world famous after the bloodless EDSA People Power revolt toppled Ferdinand Marcos and installed Corazon Aquino as President?
Daring greatly
In a period mired with confusion and uncertainty, the grieving widow of our slain hero, Ninoy, was the only person who united the “silenced” and “silent” Filipinos in her life and yes, in her death.
A transition government?
It is gossip material; it is also media material. Reportedly the person who has been fronting for it is National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales. But, of course, Malacañang says that Gonzales is on his own! Curiously, Gonzales is still in good standing with the current government.
Funeral procession like Ninoy’s 1983 burial
Uniting the nation in death as she did in life, the late former president Corazon Aquino brought most of Metro Manila to rain-drenched, traffic-snarled roads yesterday , in a funeral procession reminiscent of the people's farewell to her husband, Benigno Aquino Jr., in 1983.