Maze: President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

WHAT A WAY TO TREAT THE FORMER PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT?!  Gloria who suffers from life-threatening spondylosis disease is requesting to be under house arrest where she can relax instead of being confined at Veterans Hospital in Quezon City.  She deserves a modicum of respect for making the Philippines progressive during her administration as president and later/current Pampanga representative.

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MAY 4, 2014  UPDATE:   WHO'S DEFENDING FORMER PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO?  She's been under house arrest since 2011.  Actor George Clooney's new fiancee that's who!

Link  http://www.philstar.com

Update  5/4/14  lib's labyrinth

  

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NO ONE CAN DENY THIS: FORMER PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL- ARROYO (2001-2010) IS ONE OF THE BEST PRESIDENTS THE COUNTRY HAS EVER HAD.  Under her administration, the annual economic growth was 4.5%, higher than her three predecessors - Cory Aquino, Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada.   She strengthen the peso and was East Asia's best performing currency in 2005 - 2006. 

Due to her economic policy, growth went up to 20% in 2007 with strong remittance from overseas workers.  Her implementation of holiday economic policy and tourism promotion abroad boasted domestic growth.  The Philippines was one of the few to avoid the 2008 global financial crisis.   

Born on April 5, 1947 she came from an illustrious family in the province of Pampanga - the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal.  In 1964, she graduated as high school valedictorian at Assumption College, a private Catholic school run by nuns in Manila. 

She attended Georgetown University in Washington, DC for two years where her classmate was former US President Bill Clinton.  In 1968, back at Assumption College she finished her college education with a B.S. of Economics degree graduating magna cum laude.  She was former professor of economics at Ateneo de Manila University in which one of her students was Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, the current Philippine President.  She also taught the same subject at the prestigious University of the Philippines and Assumption College.

Young Senator

She's married to her childhood sweetheart Jose Miguel Arroyo, lawyer and businessman.  They had three children. Their son Dato is a congressman. 

  

She entered government in 1987, serving the Cory Aquino Administration.  Years later she became the Vice-President of former President Joseph Estrada, now the current Mayor of Manila.  The Estrada Administration was voted "most corrupt" in the whole world and was the first one of Philippine presidents to go to jail.  Days after a tumultuous political demonstration in front of Quiapo Church that was broadcast by BBC all over the world, Gloria took over was sworn as president on January 30, 2001.  

Gloria looked pretty in pink - my favorite photo of her

An excellent extemporaneous speaker (she does not need a teleprompter)

Awards and Accolades

• 2011  Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella by President Leonel Fernandez of Dominican Republic
• 2010  Don Quixote De La Mancha Award by King Juan Carlos of Spain
• 2004 - 2009  Forbes magazine 100 Most Powerful Woman in the World; 4th in 2005
• 2005  Honorary Doctor of Laws degree - Kyungsung University, Pusan, South Korea
• 2005  Time magazine People Who Mattered Most
• 2004  Honorary Doctor of Laws degree - University of San Francisco, California
• 2003  Honorary Doctor of Laws degree - Fordham University
• 2002  Honorary Doctor of Laws degree - Waseda University, Japan
•  2001 Honorary Doctor of Laws degree - La Trobe University, Australia
• Grand Cordon of Order of the Chrysanthemum, Japan

Meeting Diplomatic Officials

State Visit of President George W. Bush

Two of my favorite Presidents: George & Gloria 

Presidential Farewell 2010 Video  http://youtu.be/yPnMtyQ7Icw

Health Issues

In early 2011, Congressman Gloria was diagnosed with cervical spondylosis.  On June 29, 2011 she had a spine surgery for 5 hours.  In August 2011, she was treated for aggravated hypoparathyroidism.

Arrested!

On November 18, 2011 Congressman Gloria was arrested for electoral fraud.  As of December 19, 2011 she was "incarcerated" at Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City - charged of electoral sabotage.  She was bailed on July 25, 2012.

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February 2011 - Pampanga Congressman Gloria attending a congressional meeting

Short chat with Gloria in February 2011

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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (2000-2010)

PGMA visited Chicago on July 21, 2002. It was her last time to meet with her kababayan.
ABC7 Kevin Roy interviewing Secretary of State Jesse White, one of the officials meeting with President Arroyo. Mayor Richard M. Daley was not present but I was. LOL!

          Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White - A very good friend of the Filipino Community

Published 7/18/10  lib's labyrinth

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