The Philippines just missed a unique opportunity to shine on the world stage. Benigno S. Aquino III was once respected as a leader of vision and compassion. Yet instead of leaving presidency with an order that Mali, the lonely and ailing elephant at the Manila Zoo, be retired to a sanctuary, he is moving on with Mali still in the same cramped, barren pen she has lived in for the past 40 years.
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Aquino’s tainted legacy
The Philippines just missed a unique opportunity to shine on the world stage. Benigno S. Aquino III was once respected as a leader of vision and compassion. Yet instead of leaving presidency with an order that Mali, the lonely and ailing elephant at the Manila Zoo, be retired to a sanctuary, he is moving on with Mali still in the same cramped, barren pen she has lived in for the past 40 years.