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OUT of town and in another ASEAN member country where Alice Guo seems to have evaporated, we remember as we write this article, the events 41 years ago when we were waiting at the Manila International Airport with banners proclaiming “Ninoy, Hindi Ka Nag-iisa” for the return of friend in exile, Benigno Aquino Jr.
It was lifted from an ear insert in Joe Burgos’ We Forum, a totally unrelated meme, as we would call it these days, shown to me by Erik, youngest son of our secretary general Rene Espina, which I thought was most appropriate for a man coming home to an uncertain future in the land of his birth. Earlier, in 1978, I was driving my Mercedes Benz 250 through the streets of Manila along with three friends flashing the L hand sign while thousands lined up making all sorts of protest noises on the eve of the Interim Batasang Pambansa elections where the imprisoned Ninoy led a motley group who dared to run in what would turn out to be a sham exercise.
As Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in an epigram remarked — “plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose” , we are where we are today because we as a people have chosen the same kind of leaders throughout four decades under political, social and economic systems that have hardly improved. Of course, the de-frosted Partido Federal says it’s not a done deal till the president mismo says so.
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