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President Gloria Arroyo has cracked down on opposition leaders following Monday's attempted storming of the national palace. How will this affect her chances in the congressional elections scheduled...
Protests over the arrest of former President Joseph Estrada on corruption charges appear to have plunged the Philippines into a political crisis. Demonstrators are engaged in fierce clashes with the authorities, and President Gloria Arroyo is arresting opposition politicians, saying she's putting down some sort of attempt to seize power. What's happening in Manila right...
...McGirk: It's a pretty amazing spectacle. President Arroyo has declared a "state of rebellion," which is just short of declaring martial law - which she couldn?t do without congressional approval. But she?s gone ahead and arrested several opposition senators, and two active serving generals...
...their man, and they see him as a victim of what they call the "power elite" - people like Arroryo, the wealthy daughter of a former president, who comes from the caste of people who have always run the Philippines. The intelligentsia and the middle and upper classes support Arroyo, but the poor - and there are a lot of them - go for Estrada. What we're not sure of is the extent to which this division has fractured the armed forces. Arroyo says they?re firmly behind her, but that's clearly not the case if she?s arresting serving generals...
...Arroyo has been counting on turning the economy around with more foreign investment, pitching the Philippines as less corrupt and more stable now that she's the president. But what we?ve seen this week is that this is a very deeply polarized society, and it's going to be harder to sell it as stable when she's forced declare de facto martial law and lock up her opponents...