The Economist (US), April 15th, 1995
Ramos has accomplished much since elected president in 1992. Although Ramos had been the chief of former dictator Ferdinand Marco's paramilitary police, he has won Congress's support for his policies. The country is moving toward economic and social stability.
HISTORY has not been kind to the Philippines. Since the Spanish left in 1898, it has suffered two more occupations and much bloodshed: hundreds of thousands died fighting the Americans, and 100,000 were killed by the Japanese in a single month in 1945. After independence and a communist insurgency, it was pillaged by an indigenous dicta...
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