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...Archbishop of Manila in 1973, a year after former Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Cardinal Sin became an outspoken critic of the authoritarian government. His influence over the Philippines' devoutly Catholic population helped spark the People Power protests that toppled two presidents?Marcos in 1986 and Joseph Estrada in 2001. "Politics without Christ is the greatest scourge of our nation," Cardinal Sin said at his 2003 retirement ceremony...
...There's no single mastermind trying to bring down Arroyo. Rather, there are sundry groups arrayed against her: retired military men, loyalists of her predecessor Joseph Estrada (whose overthrow in a People Power demonstration in 2001 gave Arroyo the presidency), leftist organizations rallying the aggrieved poor in regular protests that denounce the government as pro-rich. But street demos are just one tactic to topple Arroyo. The strategy?according to foes of Arroyo as well as palace insiders?is to first discredit the 58-year-old former economics professor in order to turn popular opinion against her. The Senate...
...obvious successor. When Filipinos took to the streets in February 1986, they were rebelling against Marcos?but they were also elevating Corazon Aquino, who had been cheated in a snap presidential election earlier in the same month. In 2001, the People Power movement knew who would replace Estrada (he had narrowly avoided being removed from office for alleged corruption by an impeachment trial): Arroyo, his Vice President, who had been elected separately. The current President might be in serious jeopardy if her challenger in last year's election, movie star Fernando Poe Jr., were around to say he had been...
...chief threat to Arroyo, however, comes from her political opposition, which includes parties that currently share power along with influential individuals out in the cold: Estrada's allies; Poe's supporters; the Marcos family; and even Arroyo's former Executive Secretary Renato de Villa, a onetime armed forces Chief of Staff and Defense Secretary who last week called for a "truth commission" to be set up to investigate the so-called Gloriagate tape. A lot of them don't want to wait for the next presidential election, due in 2010, for a shot at power. Their main goal...
Tommy Lee Jones, as a cowboy on a noble, deranged mission, in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. The jury agreed, giving him this prize...