The late Philippine president Fidel V. Ramos helped depose a dictator, only to see Marcos’s heir return to power.
FILE: Then Philippine vice-President Leni Robredo along with former Philippine president fidel Ramos , and Senate President Koko Pimentl acknowledge photographers prior to the start of the closing ceremony of the 50th Association of Southeast Asian Nations regional security forum in Manila on August 8, 2017. Fidel Ramos, president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998, died on Sunday after a life and career that saw triumphs over suspicion and self-restraint.
Ramos’s death removes from the Philippine political scene one of the great players of the election epic of 1986. Two major protagonists remain: Imelda Marcos, 93, the mother of the current president and widow of the man Ramos ousted; and Juan Ponce Enrile, 98, the defense minister who joined Ramos in revolt but who is now reconciled to the resurgent Marcos dynasty.
Ramos would show up less and less at Cosmopolitan as the anti-Marcos outcry from the pulpit got louder and prominent opposition congregants started to exercise their political ambitions. Behind the scenes, however, he kept channels open — especially through my aunt Betty Go-Belmonte, a newspaper publisher who would become a great ally of Corazon Aquino. In the Philippine world of family connections, theirs would be pivotal. His parents had been the godparents at her wedding.
In the hours after that decision, a group of Catholic seminarians paraded a statue of Our Lady of Fatima among the citizens of Manila who had surrounded the military base where Ramos and Enrile were holed up, a human wall protecting them from a counterattack by regime loyalists. The Protestant general allowed the Catholic procession to take place. It helped bring down the dividing lines between between Filipinos and created a united front against Marcos.
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