Word: arroyos
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Despite his arrest on serious corruption charges, former Philippines president Joseph Estrada may yet elude prison - and not simply because of the merits or demerits of the case against him. Estrada, who was deposed in a constitutional coup in February and replaced by his vice president, Gloria Arroyo, was arrested Wednesday after police prevailed in scuffles with thousands of Estrada supporters gathered outside his home. Prosecutors allege that the former action-movie star, who campaigned for the presidency as a populist champion of the poor, had illegally amassed some $80 million during his presidency. The charge of economic plunder carries...
...Estrada's case may be something of a test of the depth of Arroyo's drive against corruption. His arrest is clearly designed to send a sharp message that corruption will not be tolerated, and yet graft has been deeply embedded in the power structure of the Philippines for decades. Attacking it will demand not only firm action against politicians on the take, but also against the tycoons offering the bribes. The former president has warned that bringing him to court will allow "the truth to come out," a signal to some of the powerful business interests that had previously...
...Losers SOPHIE RHYS-JONES Prince Edward's wife cocks up royally. A tabloid captures her on tape calling Cherie Blair "horrid, absolutely horrid, horrid, horrid" GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO Muslim separatists promise her the head of a hostage as a birthday gift. For Christmas, however, they're giving her a new bedroom set SURVIVOR II Australian authorities bristle when reality show members swipe coral souvenirs. They become disgusted when hungry contestants eat the coral...
...countrymen agree. And the debate goes beyond whether the film is art or trash; for many Filipinos, it raises doubts over whether Macapagal-Arroyo remains in debt to the Catholic church which helped her rise to the presidency on Jan. 20, after Joseph Estrada was swept from office in a popular uprising. Filipinos definitely wanted Estrada out, on corruption charges, but they were less sure they wanted Macapagal-Arroyo to replace him. It was only after the military and Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, head of the country's Catholic church, threw their support behind Macapagal-Arroyo, then vice-president, that...
...recovery" after the two-year regime of Estrada, 63, an ex-film star who bragged about his fondness for women and booze. Live Show is the first victim in this crusade, and many newspapers are calling it censorship. And worries of a nationwide bowdlerization campaign were exacerbated by Macapagal-Arroyo's banning of a film she hadn't even seen. One columnist, the Manila Standard's Alex Magno, wrote: "We cannot allow that noble vision of a 'moral society' to be taken hostage by those who use the same phrase to mean denial of artistic freedom." Nonsense, says anti-pornography...