Remembering Martial Law Terror

I could not write better than the illustrious historian Alfred W. McCoy, so I might as well reprint what he had written about martial law terror of President F. Marcos 39 years ago today. “IN THE FOURTH MONTH of President Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law rule, two constabulary troopers marched a middle-aged Chinese merchant across a Manila parade…

Dengue Epidemic In Manila, Caused By Cyberspace Mosquitoes!

Here are the pertinent provisions of the Civil Code of the Philippines on Quasi-Delicts (Torts). Art. 2179. When the plaintiff’s own negligence was the immediate and proximate cause of his injury, he cannot recover damages. But if his negligence was only contributory, the immediate and proximate cause of the injury being the defendant’s lack of…