HOTSPOT
This week, we marked the 40th anniversary of the demise of a dictatorship at the hands of the historic People Power uprising. Prior to Feb. 22, 1986, the dictatorship was what’s legal. But in four days, the “constitutional authoritarianism” came to an end courtesy of a civilian-led revolt that, among others, protected mutinous soldiers holed up in the two camps along EDSA and who were deathly afraid of being crushed by the dictator’s forces.
I was still young at the time. In fact, our mother hurriedly brought us siblings to the province when the uprising started, perhaps fearing violence. But from when we came back to the city, the magnitude of the events was impressed…