macbolan00 Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 1 hour ago, haroots2 said: Well based on what you enumerate, I still stand on my statement na kahit pagsamahin mo pa sila It can't equal the brains of FEMs cabinet like Carlos P. Romulo, Estelito Mendoza, Arturo Tolentino, Blas Ople Vicente Abad Santos, Ricardo Puno, Roberto Ongpin. Cesar Virata and Salvador Escudero to name a few. Even late FVR is part of it as Phil. Constabulary chief. Didn't even include Enrile So stipulated. Marcos Sr's status in the UP community, as well as the "unique" feature of his regime, allowed him to fully mine academic and professional talents, especially from UP. But my point was, even a one-term president with only 6 years has a big enough store of qualified candidates. Oh and unfortunately, Marcos Sr's cabinet and inner circle included (aside from Enrile-- a definite minus) Imelda Marcos, Fabian Ver, Cocoy Romualdez, Bejo Romualdez, Alita Martel, Danding Cojuanco, Lucio Tan, Herminio Disini, Roman Cruz, Benedicto, and others who somehow escaped justice and are either still living or died fabulously rich. That, according to many, was more than enough to offset the competence of his core cabinet men. With regard to the last point above, I'm a bit neutral. All the US-friendly dictators in Asia had to have a swarm of business cronies. Their job was basically to break the monopoly of the old rich, and foreign owners. The original Korean conglomerates (precursors of the likes of Hyundai, Samsung, and Daewoo) had as original directors relatives and cronies of Park Chung Hee. The large conglomerates in Singapore were all founded by cronies of Lee Kwan Yew. Indonesia under Soeharto is probably the worse in terms of cronyism. Quote Link to comment
haroots2 Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 Personally my opinion is Imelda corrupted FEM. She is the evil one that want to hold on to power and glamorous lifestyle. Imagine if FEM married a simple housewife like Cory maybe we have a different country right now. Quote Link to comment
DomPerignom Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 Excuse me po... 1 Quote Link to comment
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