Posted on 05/14/2022 6:14:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
Bishop Rey Evangelista says God never meant Leni Robredo to win as her mission was to wake Filipinos up
Church people have expressed disbelief and despair over the Philippine presidential election after the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos easily defeated their pick — Vice President Leonor “Leni” Robredo.
With about 98 percent of the ballots counted, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr had 31 million votes while Robredo had less than half that number with about 15 million.
Many within the Church had publicly backed Robredo as Marcos was seen as a throwback to the martial law years when his father suppressed, tortured and murdered opponents while plundering the country.
During the campaign, senior clerics criticized Marcos for trying to paint the martial law years as a “golden era” in Philippine history. Now they fear history could be about to repeat itself.
Clergymen who were members of a group called Priests for Leni said they had been left despondent by the election result.
“Everybody is just reeling from this sad situation,” said group member Father Ed Molina from Novaliches Diocese in Manila.
(Excerpt) Read more at ucanews.com ...
Simply calling Marcos a “dictator” does not make him one.
His son is his own man.
He’s fine just as long as he comes to the U.S. with his dad’s helicopter and, on the 4th of July, drops all communist american politicians and journalists onto the National Mall from 3,000 feet...
Bong Bong is his own man. Granted. He will have his own Cronies like Ver, Enrile and Mama-San Imelda. A puppet just like Biden. Reset players
The corrupt Marcos family should have been stripped of all monies and properties. Can’t believe the the Filipinos have allowed them to continue infesting the islands.
Instead of praying to Mary, they should have been praying to Jesus
Are you a citizen of the Philippines? Then why in the world would you care who was elected President of the Philippines? I doubt you could find the Philippines on a world map with large type, or name the capitol... Apparently you think FR is a sports bar with a bunch of drunks discussing hydrogen fusion. Don’t you just hate it when a foreigner talks about our leadership in derogatory or laudatory terms... Don’t be that guy.
My wife is Filipino. She is very astute with regard to Philippine history, and Philippine politics.
To be blunt: people who are denouncing former President Marcos, are simply, regurgitating the equivalent of CNN talking points.
Do some real research on your own and you will see that the history is NOT what you have been told.
Funny, not sure why are are so virtrol in your comments. FYI, I was stationed there while Ferdinand Marcos was in power, have followed it since. Very odd to find anyone apparently defending the corrupt Marcos family, especially on FR.
True. The son is well known as a lazy dimwit, according to all accounts, even his own father left a note to that effect.
The father was a fiendishly clever lawyer, probably the smartest man ever in Philippine politics.
The real question is who is the eminence grise behind the son, and what their intentions are.
At the time I was working in the Philippines in the management services arm of what was then a subsidiary of Arthur Anderson. We were working closely with the Asian Development Bank. What Marcos had done was an open secret - actually no secret at all, to anyone with access to World Bank data.
1. He had given control of primary export industries, coconuts and sugar, to two cronies, and established “levies” (export taxes) and marketing control to these worthies. They stole the levies, which were supposed to have been kept in trust for the farmers who were paying them. That was fifty years ago. That money disappeared and was never returned. I have the receipts for our part of those levies btw. Anyway, that was @20% of export earnings over 20 years skimmed and used for private purposes, going to Swiss banks or buying Philippine assets.
2. Bigger than that was his manipulation of foreign loans. The government would permit yet another gang of cronies obtain loans from foreign banks, guaranteed by the Philippine government. The enterprises these loans were supposed to finance all failed, of course, and the money disappeared, and the country was left holding the bag. This ruined the national credit, the WB had to organize bailouts and loan restructuring, etc. and etc. The Philippines had excellent credit before this brilliant Marcos plan kicked in in the mid-70’s. After 1986 the Philippines was starved of investment capital due to bad credit and as the country had to concentrate on loan servicing. More hard currency was leaving than entering, leading to a Marcos created “lost decade” of no real per-capita growth.
If you want tables and charts, just ask. Its not easy for a single mans corruption to ruin a nations economy through simple theft, but here you are, he managed it.
That is beside a mass of scams, robberies (stealing land
or businesses outright), smuggling, intimidation (give me x, or else), even organized kidnapping.
His real cronies weren’t Ver and Enrile. Granted Enrile did get very rich as a result of getting his share, but he doesn’t hold a candle to the likes of Danding Cojuanco.
I too am a foreigner, albeit one with forty years residence in your country. I reserve the right to call your leaders whatever I like. I understand your affairs intimately. Only knowledge is necessary to comment.
He bloody well was a dictator. He overthrew his own government through a military coup he organized. I was there, I remember it well. He then ruled by decree, until he created a puppet assembly of persons beholden to him. He also maintained “martial law” at the time.
I was there throughout that period.
What Marcos did (mostly) in one picture.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/PHL/philippines/external-debt-stock
See that increase in external debt 1974-82? That mass of green? That was dollar denominated loans borrowed from foreign banks. That massive (thats annual increases, think of the cumulative total) lump of cash was what Marcos plus cronies stole.
Add to that the coconut levy and sugar monopoly, lesser but still enormous.
You are not a foreignor, you area fellow American. You can say anything you want.
Some interesting backstory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongbong_Marcos
Philippines need their own second amendment.
First it’s vitriol, or the way you are using the word, vitriolic. And I reply that way to some people, like you, because they are determinedly ignorant and make no effort write clearly. I did not defend the former President Marcos, as you imputed, I merely observed that we hate it when foreignors comment on our affairs, like bleating Trump is crude, Yet we have no qualms about talking about another countries’ affairs. Filipinos love Marcos, that is the way it is. For us to criticize Marcos while letting Hillary, Obama, and Biden run wild here is rank hypocrisy.
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