Joseph's Fall From Grace:Elite Power or People Power?
Tuesday, February 13, 2001
Not everyone was happy when President Joseph Estrada was forced from power. But why was "people power" in the Philippines so effective and peaceful? Could it happen like that in Indonesia? TEMPO's Gita W. Laksmini went to Manila to find out. This is just one of several reports she filed.
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Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, better known as EDSA, is clean again. The long wide street in Metropolitan Manila is now deserted—no more swarms of people. The EDSA Shrine, memorial to the courage of the Catholic nuns who faced down the tanks of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, is no longer covered with posters and banners. Only a few dog-eared leaflets congratulating the new President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo remain.
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