#ML50 Interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late Teodoro M. Locsin recounted his arrest early in the morning of September 23, 1972:
#ML50 Interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late Chino Roces reflected on his arrest on September 23, 1972:
#ML50 interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late broadcaster Jose Mari Velez recounted his arrest early in the morning of September 23, 1972:
#ML50 Interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late journalist (and at the time, ConCon delegate) Napoleon Rama recounted his arrest early in the morning of September 23, 1972:
#ML50 interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late senator Soc Rodrigo reflected on his arrest on September 23 1972 and life as a prisoner:
#ML50 interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late Aurora Aquino recounted what it was like for a mother to hear on September 23, 1972 of her son's arrest shortly before midnight, September 22, 1972:
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Quick notes on the latest Arroyo-related brouhaha. 1. The lay of the land for the ruling coalition's interesting in that neither the prexy nor veep have pocket parties of consequence: the expected stampede was into a party in coalition, but not specifically led by the prexy.
Essentially, GMA has been credited with: 1. being instrumental in the coalition that brought Duterte victory; 2. negotiating the 2022 tandem that accomplished first successful succession since 1992. The dilemma of the third wheel, politically.
Initially, she seemed frozen out in the division of the spoils; but she started becoming a fixture in the travels of the President (to wean her away from the veep? As a foil to the President's elder sister and channel to veep? Simply to keep friends close, enemies closer?)
@lucindomino There are two factors missing in your review. First what replaced parties for many reasons was national media, a process that began in 1955 with the abolition of bloc voting which was the basic building block of the national senate scheme. The erosion dated that far back. What…
@lucindomino disguised it was changing of the rules in 1987 abandoning the 8 at a time to make it 12 at a time at the instigation of premartial law losers who wanted a chance post martial law (incidentally abandoning making the senate a continuing body and also as surveys since have revealed
@lucindomino Setting aside the tendency of voters to recall max slate of 8: so what arose as opportunity was dagsag bawas). So long as national media was strong new personalities could gain national recognition altho advantage shifted to media and showbiz personalities). But by 2013 it was…
(thread) The real question we have to ask in remembering #ML50 is less how did Marcos manage to get away with it, but rather, how did so many who knew what was coming, fail to stop it? The timeline reveals to us it was like a trainwreck in slow motion. philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t…
I have my own theories from reading up and listening to those who were active then. My theory is it took 1962-76 he actually did it in a lot of stages. What Makoy had going for him: every institution that could resist had cells of Marcos minded people. In media, Doroy Valencia...
in the courts, Fred Ruiz Castro, the Ilocano generals and all the colonels pissed off with the Commission on Appointments; legions of parents freaked out by hippies, priests and bishops freaked out by Reds, ditto businessmen big and small. Against him the usual intelligentsia...
But equally interesting is how, once disgraced, the song made a manufactured comeback for campaign purposes, a years-long process I documented through this playlist: see the scope of the revival. youtube.com/playlist?list=…