The plight of freedom fighters

LONG after the 1986 February EDSA revolt, persistent American justice continued to bedevil the Filipinos of the opposition movement abroad who led the resistance against the Martial Law regime.

The pain of long exile for this group – composed of some Filipinos and Fil-Americans, mostly unnamed but led mainly by Heherson T. Alvarez, Raul Daza, Bonifacio Gillego and Charles Avila, along with a naturalized American citizen, Steven E. Psinakis (husband of Precy Lopez of the wealthy Lopez clan) -- still weighed heavily in their hearts. Some mornings, a few would wake up in a sweat, haunted by nightmares of being chased by Marcos assassins.