JPE’s Memoir, is a narration of political events that bedevil the nation beginning 1924, when a poor boy, Juanito Furagganan, JPE’s childhood name, was born in barrio Mission in the town of Gonzaga, a sandy, coastal, fishing village situated at the mouth of the Mission River, Cagayan, up to the historical impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona of…
Dateline: Maui, Hawaii, 3:00 P.M. May 3, 2012 I filed this report 3 hours after touchdown at Kahului Airport, Maui — Where do the dollars of CJ Renato Corona could have come from? The issue of whether he has dollar accounts, had already been settled after the PSBank President testified before the IC that the chief magistrate…
In the last years of U.S. rule, this synergy of provincial politics, police corruption, and illegal gambling led to a succession of scandals. But few could equal the spectacular, yearlong controversy that erupted in Iloilo, then the country’s second largest city. In June 1928 two rising media magnates, Eugenio and Fernando Lopez launched their first newspaper,…
Did GMA soil the integrity of her father, President Diosdado Macapagal and her physical ailments bear witness of her Dad’s wrath? During the 1965 presidential elections where Ferdinand Marcos ran against Diosdado Macapagal, General Ramon Gelvezon had adroitly sidestepped pressure from President’s ally Sergio Osmena to raid the Danao City bailiwick of Cebu’s warlord Ramon Durano. This is how…
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