Newsweek International, January 22nd, 2007
Byline: Marites Vitug
The Philippines has had four leaders in the two decades since the fall of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, but only one who did not disappoint. During his tenure from 1992 to 1998, Fidel Ramos got the economy moving, broke up several powerful monopolies, tempered corruption and contained the communist and Muslim rebels in Mindanao. He left office as his country's most effective modern leader, and one of the region's strongest advocates for greater economic and polity unity. He is in the group of eight "eminent persons" writing a new charter for the Association of Southea...
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