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If it’s Lacson, be very afraid

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | June 27, 2005 - 12:00am

It’s uncanny how history repeats itself. President Abdala Bucaram ruled Ecuador only six months in 1997. Splurging his term womanizing, gambling, boozing – and rifling the public till of $100 million –...

Opinion

The ghost of Bucaram

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | April 30, 2005 - 12:00am

Sometime before Erap’s ouster, I wrote a column on the uncanny similarities between the political situations in the Philippines and Ecuador. Ecuador’s citizens removed Bucaram, a populist president who...

Opinion

Is there a role for the military?

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | February 1, 2004 - 12:00am

There is but it may become problematic in the interpretation of just what that role is in the 1987 Constitution. The role of the military in the fate of a nation depends on the specificity of the situation from country...

Opinion

The fire this time - FROM A DISTANCE by Carmen N. Pedrosa

November 4, 2000 - 12:00am

Dilemma between impeachment and resignation. As events unravel with Filipinos determined to driveforce out Erap out of Malacanang Palace, we are confronted with a dilemma. The economy is in such a precarious situation...

Opinion