Progressive Groups Say $434 Million Compact Grant to Benefit US, Not the Philippines
Progressive Groups Say $434 Million Compact Grant to Benefit US, Not the Philippines
By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — Filipinos have nothing to applaud but plenty to fear from its new president’s US trip and the bacon it’s supposed to bring home soon, based on statements of workers, migrants, youth and students’ organizations and economic think-tank Ibon Foundation. Various people’s organizations scored the Aquino government’s double-faced tack at presenting itself as “frugal” and supposedly better than its predecessor, when in truth, the Aquino government is “unmasking itself” as no different from the Arroyo government, if not worse.
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