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By Conrado de Quiros
Only Cory Aquino did better, not just appearing in Time Magazine but on the cover of Time Magazine. Indeed, not just appearing on the cover of Time Magazine but appearing there five times. The first in February 1986 after the Edsa Revolution, the second (along with Doy Laurel) in March 1986 in a cover story titled, “Now for the hard part,” third in January 1987 as Time’s “Woman of the Year,” fourth in November 2006 as one of “60 Asian Heroes,” and fifth in August 2009 after her death as “The woman who changed Asia.”
Posted: April 22nd, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Amando Doronila
Twenty-seven years after the Edsa People Power Revolution toppled the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, the government of the restored Philippine democracy is in the hands of the son of the late President Cory Aquino, whose family is descended from the country’s wealthiest political dynasty.
Posted: February 25th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neni Sta. Romana Cruz
The next four weeks, close to the end of another school year, offer another opportunity for teachers to expose their students to a chapter of recent history still not properly documented or rendered the importance it deserves in textbooks—the curse of the martial law years, the almost miraculous ascent to power of the woman garbed in yellow, and the phenomenal Edsa Revolution that inspired many other peaceful revolutions in the world.
Posted: February 8th, 2013 in Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
This refers to Ricardo Ramos’ letter, where he said “Cory betrayed the Filipino people” because she pursued “a position similar to the American position,” as revealed in a book written by Dr. Alran Bengzon, then health secretary and head of Philippine government negotiating panel (Inquirer, 10/6/12).
Posted: October 25th, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Juan L. Mercado
“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man,” former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wrote. “But if you want anything done, ask a woman.”
Posted: October 5th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV’s back-channel negotiations with China reminds me of the US bases negotiations in the early 1990s during the presidency of Corazon C. Aquino, mother of incumbent President Noynoy Aquino. Our “beloved” Cory disregarded the position of the Philippine negotiating panel headed by then Health Secretary Alran Bengzon and came up with her own position similar to the American position.
Posted: October 5th, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Randy David
Following the ouster of its long-time president, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has taken the first step toward building a modern democracy. Last Sunday, it proclaimed the first-ever democratically elected civilian president in the nation’s history. It is not easy to read from the outcome of this closely contested election what urgent hopes and needs the people were expressing through their votes.
Posted: June 28th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Amando Doronila
The first Filipino People Power revolution broke out at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 1986, at Camp Aguinaldo, headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, with a military revolt led by Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, AFP deputy chief of staff and Philippine Constabulary chief, against the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship.
Posted: February 27th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Butch Hernandez
Here at the Eggie Apostol Foundation, our memory of Feb. 25, 1986, remains as clear as ever. That’s because after the Philippine electorate trooped to the polls in May 1995 to choose their senators and congressmen, Tita Eggie asked herself and her friends: “Where have all the yellow flowers gone?” Merely 10 years after Edsa I, in just our third iteration of this democratic exercise, allegations of vote-buying and “dagdag-bawas” flew thick and fast among the contending political parties.
Posted: February 24th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Amando Doronila
President Benigno Aquino III ends the first 18 months of his administration marked by the most turbulent transition from one regime to another since the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution.
Posted: December 25th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
A congressman wants to rename Edsa after Cory Aquino. His reason? “It would be but a fitting tribute to former President Corazon Aquino, woman of courage and valor, that Edsa, an avenue that (has become a) testament to the country’s love of democracy, be named after her,” said author Bohol Rep. Rene Relampagos in the [...]
Posted: November 25th, 2011 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Conrado de Quiros
Bongbong Marcos had an interesting reply to Edwin Lacierda’s barb about his family needing to apologize to the country first before they could even think to bury Ferdinand in the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Why them only? Why not everyone who committed human rights abuses against the people? Why not the Aquinos too? “[Lacierda] plays [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
