WHILE being wheeled to the emergency room of a hospital after a near-fatal ambush in 1982, former Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez asked then Quezon City police director Tomas Karingal: “What is happening to our country, General?”

At that time, Pelaez, one of the country’s prominent political personalities having served also as congressman and senator, was actively opposing the coconut levy that benefited Marcos cronies. It was one of the reasons suspected behind the ambush.

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