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On borrowed earth by Iloilo Views on Aug 11, 2011As I trudged closer to the mountain’s windy peak, the dark jungle slowly broke open. Then, without warning, a million peach-colored flowers surged forward and I was swallowed waist deep in a lush ocean of color. And I thought, what place on earth i...
Poll rigging probes take a heavy toll by Iloilo Views on Aug 4, 2011Investigations into cheating allegations in two national elections in the space of three years—the 2004 presidential polls and the 2007 congressional and senatorial elections—have taken a heavy toll on the integrity of the Philippine electoral s...
‘That she may dance again’ by Iloilo Views on Aug 4, 2011“To become an interruption, perhaps a prophet to the Church hierarchy that for so long has denied women of equal dignity and full humanity.” This is the opening lines of the foreword of the book “That She May Dance Again: Rising from pain of vi...
A test for the new ombudsman by Iloilo Views on Aug 2, 2011THE SIXTH plunder case against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was lodged at the Office of the Ombudsman on July 26, hot on the heels of the appointment the day before of a new ombudsman, retired Supreme Court Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales...
P-Noy and ‘the grace of office’ by Iloilo Views on Jul 28, 2011WILL “THE grace of office” carry him through? After Benigno Aquino III was proclaimed landslide winner in last year’s presidential elections, I did a page 1 article (May 23, 2010) on the so-called “grace of office” supposedly divinely besto...
Bantay FOI! Sulong FOI! by Iloilo Views on Jul 21, 2011The push for the Freedom of Information (FOI) law has risen from the dead. This time, we hope, the law will be passed and live on for generations of Filipinos to invoke and use to enhance their rights and freedoms. In June last year, during the dying...
Lynch-mob rule in impeachment by Iloilo Views on Mar 13, 2011THE ADMINISTRATION of President Benigno Aquino III is fueling a lynch-mob atmosphere over the effort to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez at all costs as the House of Representatives prepares to vote in plenary this week on the articles of impea...
Gutierrez on the dock by Iloilo Views on Mar 10, 2011MERCEDITAS GUTIERREZ is the first female ombudsman in the Philippines. She is the first non-elected official to face impeachment action in Congress in recent times. She is the first official appointed by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to se...
From Nuremberg to The Hague by Iloilo Views on Mar 10, 2011I HAVE always been fascinated by war documentaries, like those on the Nazi era filmed by a woman, Leni Riefenstahl (“Triumph of the Will”), and by soldiers and “embedded” journalists. The ugliness of raw power, the cruelty and suffering as re...
Myths of Facebook, Twitter ‘revolutions’ by Iloilo Views on Mar 9, 2011FACEBOOK, THE social media network, is claimed to have more than 500 million subscribers worldwide. I am not one of that vast army of camp followers. In the history of antiquity, camp followers consisted of the entourage of marauding military expedit...
