FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

WITH the sole cooperation of the military and without alerting the public in advance about it, the Marcos family buried the remains of the late former President Ferdinand Marcos in private rites at the Libingan ng mga Bayani at high noon last Friday, while their mostly leftist adversaries prayed in vain for a reversal of the Supreme Court decision dismissing their petitions against the burial, and while President Rodrigo Duterte, its main proponent, was attending the APEC summit in Lima, Peru. It was a totally unexpected coup.

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