They’ve been singing “happy days are here again” at the Bureau of Immigration (BI). Sen. Risa Hontiveros, chair of the Senate committee on women, children, family relations and gender equality, dropped a bombshell last Monday: a “pastillas” scheme at the airports in which Chinese nationals enjoy VIP access for a “service fee” of some P10,000 each. The evidence proving the scheme—thus named because the payoff is rolled up in bond paper like the local milk candy—is damning.
One quiet evening in 1899, while Emilio Aguinaldo and his party were resting from a long retreat from the enemy, deep into northern Luzon, the general and a few friends gazed at the stars in the dark sky and imagined a time when they would tour the great capitals of
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