Long-time comrades

At the residence of Atty. Rufus Rodriguez, former Vice-Governor of the province of Misamis Oriental, former Commissioner of the Philippine Bureau of Immigration and Deportation, old comrades met for the first time since their years together as student activists fighting the Marcos Military Machine. Most of them studied in Xavier University (XU) in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines in the years prior to the declaration of Martial Law, which was Ferdinand E. Marcos's adventure into dictatorship; an adventure lasting twenty years when freedom was trampled on and basic rights abrogated unilaterally by an increasingly-oppressive regime. Though a brilliant man with a sense of personal destiny and largely hailed as a hero and a great leader by the older generation, Marcos had to rely on the military to effect his own ccntinued rule after the end of his terms in office. The taste for power had created a craving for dynastic persistence and he promoted the military to the fore of political life as well as economic life for the first time in the history of the Philippines. Taking over the many large industries, he appointed military officias to positions of prominence and executive control of these sequestered companies.

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