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My exclusive analysis By Raïssa Robles It sure seems like he did. When Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay gave President Benigno Aquino III his recommendation to bury Ferdinand Marcos with “military honors,” a smoking-gun document was attached to his recommendation, according to sources I interviewed. My sources came from all sides of the issue, including the Marcos camp. The [...]
She waylays Imelda Marcos the way no Filipino has yet Our very good friend Veronica Pedrosa made this highly personal documentary which I would recommend for viewing. Not only because my journalist-hubby Alan comes out at the start before film director Joel Lamangan. But because Rica puts Martial Law and the Marcoses in the context that they ought to [...]
By Raïssa Robles The torture happened over 30 years ago but to this day, the victim still insisted on talking to me on condition that I won’t reveal his name. Na-torture ka pala (you were tortured), I told the person whom I have known for the last 17 years. And yet he never mentioned he had been tortured even [...]
HALO-HALO: Welcome to my Gossip Column By Raïssa Robles Residents in the riverside village of Yezu Kok Mei Chien in Hongjiang, Fujian province, are all excited about President Benigno Aquino’s visit there this Saturday. The South China Morning Post Beijing correspondent Teddy Ng was able to talk to its village chief Xu Bingsheng, who promised to engage PNoy in [...]
An exclusive By Raïssa Robles When Filipinos aren’t watching, former First Lady Imelda Marcos not only makes fun of the late President Corazon Aquino, she also slams as bogus the late president and the 1986 Philippine Constitution. Thanks to Milan-based journalist Marcello Bussi, we know how Madame Congresswoman Marcos truly feels about Cory Aquino. Bussi writes for Milano Finanza, [...]
A personal commentary By Raïssa Robles When Imelda Marcos went to the Cultural Center of the Philippines and asked it to shut down an art exhibit, it promptly did. When presidential spokesman Ed Lacierda was asked what the Office of the President intended to do with the same art exhibit, he washed President Benigno Aquino’s hands for him and [...]
Now you see him, now you don’t My Exclusive By Raïssa Robles Even if the Philippine government were to bury the long dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos with military honors, his corpse might not stay buried. Because the way you and I understand the word “buried” is not the way the widow Imelda Marcos understands it. Imelda Marcos has [...]
Marcos body was accorded military honors in 1993 My exclusive By Raïssa Robles Should we be surprised? In his very last news conference as outgoing President, Fidel Ramos told reporters that the Marcos family broke one of the three preconditions they had agreed to in exchange for bringing Ferdinand Marcos’ remains to the Philippines. “I authorized the return of [...]
Alan Robles, a multi-awarded journalist, has been posting a series of exposés on the Marcoses in his website hotmanila.ph over the last 11 years. I’d like to share them with you all, especially with the present generation. Alan intentionally wrote in satire to celebrate our new-found freedoms. You see, during Martial Law, laughing at the Marcoses could land you in [...]
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