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...groups are collectively known as vigilantes, anti-Communist self- defense bands that have proved so strong a bulwark against subversion by the insurgent New People's Army that they have gained immense popular support. They present a unique and prickly political problem for the government of President Corazon Aquino. Now firmly established on the large southern island of Mindanao, they are beginning to spread to other parts of the country. Though separate from the renegade warlords and private armies that still plague areas of the Philippines, the vigilantes are part of a tradition that Aquino's government would like...
...that matter, the Philippines. Marcos's dictatorship in 1968 planted the seeds of rising rebellions a decade later, and his replacement by Aquino two decades later. Why is the Union of South Africa listed as having a "high level of political instability" in 1968, while the Philippines have a "high level of political stability"? The situation in South Africa appears to me parallel in one respect to that of the Philippines, with a government able to impose itself for a relatively long period while the tension builds up and the period may end up in a bloody revolution. After...
Huntington and Betts published another version of their "Dead Dictators" article in the Wall Street Journal (13 August 1986) after Marcos was out. The whole discussion about the Philippines and the false conclusions are omitted, in light of Marcos's replacement by Aquino, which occurred in the meantime. Once more, both articles make it appear as if certain political opinions are rooted in scholarship or science...
Last February the government announced a multibillion-dollar five-year plan to redistribute the nation's 22 million cultivated acres. (President Aquino's family plantation, the 14,000-acre Hacienda Luisita, would be included.) But it is almost certain that the new Philippine congress, to be elected May 11, will water down the plan. Even then, the program will remain heavily dependent on foreign economic assistance...
What the Philippines needs now is massive investment, and that in turn will depend on how well Aquino continues to handle her political problems. Aside from efforts by foreign companies already in place, little new direct foreign investment has entered the country since she took presidential office. But so far as Western banks are concerned, the awkward problem is that the latest fussing over debt agreements has delayed a cautious vote of confidence in the archipelago...