FEBRUARY 25, 2025, is the 39th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution (EDSA). All its major characters are long gone save one.
FEBRUARY 25, 2025, is the 39th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution . All its major characters are long gone save one. Enrile, a political Cartaphilus, the wandering Jew, has outlived them all — Ferdinand Marcos, Cory, Cardinal Sin, General Ramos — and a host of dramatis personae in supporting roles, nonetheless critically part of the narrative — Reform the Armed Forces Movement , Gen. Fabian Ver, Doy Laurel, and many others.
We yearned to translate into realities what were then 'motherhood statements' about people empowerment that could bring about national unity and a healing after years of societal polarization; and re-establishing the rule of law — not just a semblance of it. This did not happen.Capture of the EDSA revolutionMany among us, the faceless participants, buoyed by the euphoria were recruited and accepted into Cory's government.
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