FVR on Baguio degradation issue

FORMER President Fidel V. Ramos (FVR) reacted to my column on “Baguio Degradation & DPWH Issues” (MTimes May 31, 2014). His letter dated June 02, 2014 was delivered to the house Thursday last week and he “cordially invited” me to his office “for coffee to clarify the item” that I wrote.

The background is that the administration of President Corazon C. Aquino was unable to address the ugly deterioration of Baguio in the late 1980s. There was the golden opportunity for the national government to control the unbridled development after the great earthquake of July 1990 that devastated Baguio. However, the government of then President Aquino miserably failed to seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do it.