“We can wipe away the tears of grief because I think it is the other way around: It is President Cory grieving for us at where we have gone, what we have become, who we are right now 10 years after she had passed on,” Villegas said. President Duterte has adopted more draconian policies, such as the bloody war on illegal drugs. I am not Corazon separated from God, separated from the Philippines. Cory was installed as Philippine leader in February 1986 following a bloodless mass uprising on Edsa that unseated dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Cory, he said, was “the shining icon of democracy.”“She has inspired not only Filipinos.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 01, 2019 21:33 UTC