Tag: bs aquino
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#MaryJaneLives: Setting the record straight — and 10 action points
The execution was stopped and Mary Jane Veloso is alive today. This is the happy outcome after countless people in the Philippines, in Indonesia, and across the world never gave up and fought up to the last hour. These efforts paid off, with President Joko Widodo making the decision at the 11th hour to spare the life of…
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Real change vs loose change
Quite interestingly, diehard supporters of President BS Aquino ushered in the commemoration of the 29th anniversary of 1986 People Power uprising by rehashing the discredited “Marcos pa rin!” battlecry into an Internet trending topic #NoynoyPaRin. For a whole day, they convinced themselves that there’s no one else fit to lead the country at this time,…
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Past, present and future
“The President should resign,” declared a manifesto signed by a growing number of citizens from across the country. Damage control is in overdrive: But even after addressing the nation on national television, the President still failed to regain the trust of citizens outraged by the incident in Mindanao, among many outstanding issues propelling the protests.
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#PapalVisitPH: Jittery Aquino gov’t vs. joyful public
The BS Aquino administration is in many ways botching the single-biggest chance to tell the world that “its more fun in the Philippines. The last time a pope visited the Philippines was exactly 20 years ago. It didn’t matter that the President was a Protestant. It didn’t matter that we still didn’t have much to…