By DEE AYROSO
Imelda’s newest haul
Tags: imelda marcos
47 years after Martial Law declaration, Marcoses ‘still have no shame’
While victims of human rights abuses won the class suit in the US Federal court in Hawaii against the Marcoses and received compensation, the Marcoses have not been punished for their crimes.
Imeldobo
By DEE AYROSO
The injustice league
Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III said a few days ago that those individuals and groups demanding the imprisonment of Imelda Marcos because of her conviction on seven counts of graft should be “fair” to the Marcos family matriarch by respecting her constitutional rights, among them her right to post bail. If her family was unfair…
Cage the Iron Butterfly
By DEE AYROSO
Gov’t lacks political will to go after the Marcoses
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star One can understand Andres Bautista’s deep frustration in wanting to abolish the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which he has headed since October 2010, although — or because — it has failed to accomplish its two-pronged mandate, 27 years after President Cory Aquino created…
Una Bilang Trahedya, Ikalawa Bilang Katatawanan
Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Sina Marx at Engels ang unang nagsinop ng obserbasyon ni Hegel na ang pangyayari at personahe ay dalawang beses umuulit. Pero para sa dynamic duo, ang unang pagkakataon ay bilang trahedya, at ang ikalawa ay bilang katatawanan (farce). Trahedya nang unang madanas ang conjugal dictatorship ng Marcoses, pati na ang karanasan…
CCP Tribute to Imelda Marcos Draws Flak
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“This is a grotesque and irresponsible display of insensitivity to the Filipino people who suffered and have been victimized under Martial Law,” Marie Hilao-Enriquez, a martial law victim and secretary general of Selda, said of the tribute by the Cultural Center of the Philippines to the wife of the dictator Marcos.