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Juan L. Mercado
Juan L. Mercado is a columnist for Philippine Daily Inquirer and Cebu Daily News. He writes a Sunday column for Sun-Star Cebu and its syndicated members, Bohol Chronicle and other community papers. He started his career in journalism in early 1950s and served as correspondent for foreign publications including London’s Financial Times and Honolulu-Star Bulletin. Mercado became the Philippine Press Institute’s founding-director. He also edited DEPTHNews, published by the Magsaysay Award-winning Press Foundation of Asia. Following the “People Power Uprising,” and after 19 years of United Nations service, Mercado returned to the Philippines to resume journalism work. He was cited for excellence in opinion writing by Society of Publishers in Asia. In 2005 and 2007, he received the “best columnist award” from the Catholic Archdiocesan Commission for Mass Media.

This Far Away Look PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 23 July 2010 23:37
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(The Inquirer headline read:  Hapag Ng Pagsa artist dies of  kidney cancer, 43.”  My eyes flicked from the  obituary to our dining room dominated by a Hapagprint.. Painter Joey Velasco sent that framed print after he read  “This Far Away Look:, our comment” on his painting. Here is that column.  In memoriam. –JLM. )

It began to speak back to me, Painter Joselito Velasco recalls. He meant the oil painting: ”Table of Hope” or Hapag ng Pagasa.

The oil depicts the Master, breaking bread, on a slum home table of broken wooden slats.  He is surrounded, not by the 12 apostles of traditional art but by12 street kids. Velasco picked and photographed them at random.

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Shekel Power PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 18:06
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“Corruption has never been compulsory, “ parliamentarian Anthony Eden wrote.. So, what  will  President  Benigno Aquino do with the sleaze legacy his predecessor dumped?  

The  Philippines ranked 141, out of  179 countries,  gauged by Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index.“

The Supreme Court forfeited Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos’s ill-gotten wealth,  Columnist Rene Saguisag recalls.. Imelda  ran for Congress.  “The ‘ill-gottener’ was not  prosecuted “Theft of  billions established...without  a thief. Wotta country”  

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Guns-For-Hire Saloon PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:56
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“Disbar the Ombudsman ,” retired businessman  Zeferino Arroyo Jr. emailed from Qurezon City. Merceditas Gutierrez  thumbed her nose at a Supreme  Court order to prosecute those linked to the P1.4 billion  Mega Pacific computer scandal.

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Extra Barongs PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 22 May 2010 23:29
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When  we last looked, the  country  had  42,008  barangays. National  attention, however, focused on  Barangay Central  in Tarlac City.

That’s where president-to-be  Benigno Aquino votes.  “Come June 30,  I may  swear in Aquino  as the 15th President of  the Philippines,” barangay captain  Edgardo Aguas  thought.

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Attila Rides Again PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 22 May 2010 21:09
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Attila the Hun torched much of Eastern Europe  between  434 to 451 AD. President  Gloria  Macapagal Arroyo exits from Malacanang with a scorch earth  policy that gutted institutions from the Ombudsman to the Civil Service Commission.

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