IT has been 30 long years since the EDA People Power Revolution toppled former President Ferdinand Marcos. In the past three decades, we have ousted and jailed a former sitting president for corruption and jailed another on corruption charges. Since 1985, poverty rates in urban and rural households have hovered in the 20 percent to 30 percent range. Meanwhile, crony capitalism rose to its highest level, ironically, during the term of Cory’s son, the previous President Benigno Aquino III. And now that the SC has ruled on the matter, let’s get the Marcos burial over and done with.

Source: Manila Times November 14, 2016 15:47 UTC