RUBEN J. CUSIPAG, July 12, 1938 – July 9, 2013

Cusipag in 1986: At impromptu press conference of Jaime Cardinal Sin.
Ruben Cusipag (left), Mila Astorga-Garcia, and others meeting then Manila Archbishop Cardinal Sin during the latter’s visit to Toronto in August 1986. Partly hidden at left, Bin Kon Loo of Filipiniana.
PHOTO: HG

From left: Ruben Cusipag, Tess Malolos, Martha Ocampo and Mila Astorga-Garcia at the celebration by Toronto Filipinos outside the Philippine Consulate after the downfall of dictator Marcos in February 1986. (PHOTO: HG)

Related picture:
From left: Nelson Umengan, Mila Astorga-Garcia, Mimi Fernandez, Hermie Garcia and Ricky Castelvi (then Balita photographer) outside the Philippine Consulate in Toronto in February 1986.

Rep. Satur Ocampo (with necktie) stops over to visit Ruben Cusipag, Publisher and Editor of BALITA, at the latter’s rehab centre in Toronto. Ocampo was on his way to the Pearson International Airport to leave for Manila after a hectic 10-day visit of Canadian major cities. Cusipag was a leader of a campaign for the release of Ocampo from political detention during Marcos’s martial law regime. From left, Ben and Paulina Corpuz, Hermie Garcia, Roger Sta. Mina, Ocampo, Rick Esguerra, Tess Cusipag and Pura Velasco. Ruben Cusipag, seated. (Caption of photo from the May 1-15, 2008 issue of The Philippine Reporter)

In 2008: BALITA’s Ruben Cusipag and Philippine Reporter’s Hermie Garcia hold each other’s paper when Rep. Satur Ocampo (right) visited Cusipag on April 18. At left is Mila Astorga-Garcia. (Caption of photo from the May 1-15, 2008 issue of The Philippine Reporter)