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The 50-year old lie of Juan Ponce Enrile
I witnessed it. Countless others heard it on radio. The date was February 23, 1986.
Fidel V. Ramos and Juan Ponce Enrile held a press conference announcing their historic break from the ruthless regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. For Enrile, the dictator’s martial law administrator, it was a tell-all. He confessed before the world that his so-called ambush on the eve of September 23, 1972 when Marcos publicly announced the imposition of martial law was faked.
