Why glorify disgraced dictator’s widow?

The Sunday Lifestyle section of the Aug. 14 issue of the Inquirer showed once again the schizophrenia of the paper’s editorial board. Under the title “Playtime,” it devoted a four-page “puff piece” to a woman who, with her husband, was the cause of great evil in the Philippines.

Has the Inquirer no respect for the memory of the countless people murdered during the conjugal dictatorship? Are its editors so ignorant and amnesiac that they don’t even know how and why the Inquirer came into existence, that they have forgotten that the Marcoses corrupted and destroyed the foundations of the Republic: the Constitution, the Supreme Court, Congress, the Armed Forces of the Philippines?

Inquirer’s glorification of the surviving half of the dictatorship and, on a number of occasions, of a deposed president found guilty of plunder is shameful. These two, who show no remorse for the harm they have done, should be ignored.

—FR. SEÁN COYLE,

San Columbano,

PO Box 588, 6100 Bacolod City