PHILIPPINE HISTORY

MEMBERS:

HENRY L. PUNTALBA

IVON NEIL AMEER

VEA DOMINGO

PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION SCANDAL AND ANOMALIES INVOLVEMENT

MANUEL L. QUEZON

CREATED THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATION

INITIATED THE WOMEN’S RIGHT’S IN THE PHILIPPINES DURING THE COMMONWEALTH REGIME

MADE TAGALOG/FILIPINO AS A NATIONAL LANGUAGE OF THE PHILIPPINES

Manuel L. Quezon made several institutions and programs to attend to the needs of the economy on his term. Healthy economy is hard to establish back then because we became independent on U.S. His effort to fix the economy was see on the Commonwealth Act No. 2 which established the National Economic Council, this act helps solve social imbalance, land maldistribution, provide land to the landless and farmers, provide housing and create an employment to the unemployed.

JOSE P. LAUREL HE ORGANIZED THE KALIBAPI( KAPISANAN SA PAGLILINGKOD NG BAGONG PILIPINAS)

ONE OF THE PIONEER OF THE LYCEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES

DECLARED THE MARTIAL LAW 1944 CONSIDERED AS THE LEGITIMATE

PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

During Laurel's term as President, hunger was the main problem. Prices of essential supplies rose. The government exerted every effort to increase production and bring consumers' goods under control. However, the greediness of the Japanese prevails

SERGIO OSMENA BELL TRADE ACT WAS APPROVED BY THE U.S CONGRESS DURING HIS PRESIDENCY

IT WAS DURING HIS REGIME, THAT THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK HAS BEEN REHABILITATED AND THE COUNTRY JOINED THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

During his time when the country is still recovering from the damage of the war; the Philippine National Bank has been rehabilitated and the country joined the International Monetary Fund. To help the economy be somewhat stabilized.

MANUEL ROXAS UNDER HIS TERM,THE PHILIPPINE REHABILITATION ACT AND PHILIPPINE TRADE ACT LAW WERE ACCEPTED BY THE CONGRESS

INAUGURATED AS THE NEW AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE NEW REPUBLIC BECAUSE THE PHILIPPINES WAS FINALLY FREE AFTER WW II

HE WAS CHOSEN AS A DELEGATE FOR “SCHOOL SUPPLIES SCANDAL SCANDAL:THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION”

FAILURE TO CHECK THE COMMUNIST HUK

“SURPLUS OF WAR PROPERTY BECAME THE HOUSE SPEAKER SCANDAL”

ELPIDIO QUIRINO UNDER HIS TERM IN THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION, HUKBALAHAP MOVEMENT WAS ACTIVE.

HE CREATED SOCIAL SECURITY COMMISSION (SSS)

HE ALSO CREATED INTEGRITY BOARD TO MONITOR GRAFT AND CORRUPTION

LACK OF FUNDS ADMINISTRATION

ECONOMIC DISTRESS OF THE TIMES, AGGRAVATED BY RISING UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, SOARING PRICES OF COOPERATIVES FINANCING COMMODITIES AND UNFAVORABLE BALANCE OF

TRADE

RAMON MAGSAYSAY

HUKBALAHAP MOVEMENT QUELLED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY

CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON GUERILLA AFFAIRS

FIRST PRESIDENT SWORN INTO OFFICE WEARING BARONG TAGALOG DURING INAUGURATION

PRESIDENCY REFERRED TO AS THE PHILIPPINES “GOLDEN YEARS” FOR IT’S LACK OF CORRUPTION

LACK OF FUNDS ADMINISTRATION

GRAFT AND CORRUPTION Republic Act No. 1199 farmers

were given a certain percentage of the distribution of crop, so it put and minor solution to that but with the case of the tenurial system, it wasn’t given notice.The relocation of the people from certain places, worked at first but eventually started a cultural dispute between the natives living there and those who were relocated.

CARLOS P. GARCIA

KNOWN FOR “FILIPINO FIRST POLICY” WHICH FAVORED FILIPINO BUSINESSES OVER FOREIGN INVESTORS

ESTABLISHED THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM FOCUSING ON FILIPINO TRADE AND COMMERCE

KNOWN AS THE “PRINCE OF VISAYAN POETS” AND THE “BARD FROM BOHOL”

CULTURAL ART WAS REVIVED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY

FIRST PRESIDENT TO HAVE HIS REMAINS BURIED AT THE LIBINGAN NG MGA BAYANI

Graft and corruption of Filipinos above those of foreigners

Lack of treasury funds (This favored the Filipino businessmen

Huge national debt in contrast to foreign investors.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL

ESTABLISHED THE FIRST LAND REFORM LAW, ALLOWING FOR THE PURCHASE OF PRIVATE FARMLAND TO BE DISTRIBUTED IN INEXPENSIVE,SMALL LOTS TO THE LANDLESS

PLACED THE PHILIPPINE PESO ON THE CURRENCY EXCHAGE MARKET

DECLARED JUNE 12 1898 TO BE PHILIPPINES INDEPENDENCE DAY

SIGNED THE MINIMUM WAGE LAW CREATED THE PHILIPPINE VETERAN’S

BANK

During his term, Macapagal fought to suppress graft

Acute problem in unemploymentand corruption within the government and also tax

Widespread mass poverty evasion.

He also aimed to stimulate the economy and placed Graft and corruption problem the peso in the free currency-exchange market

Lack of treasury fundsencouraging the wealthiest families to invest. a number his reforms were blocked

Macapagal also passed the Land Reform Bill whichfreed many farmers from slavery as tenant farmers.

FERDINAND E. MARCOS

FIRST PRESIDENT TO WIN A SECOND TERM

DECLARED MARTIAL LAW ON SEPTEMBER 22,1972

INCREASED THE SIZE OF THE PHILIPPINE MILITARY AND ARMED FORCES

BY 1890 THE PHILIPPINE GNP WAS

The communal violence in Mindanao resulted in 100,000 refugees, burning of hundred of homes, and the death of hundreds of Christians and Muslims in Cotabato and Lanao.

an economic crisis brought by

FOUR TIMES GREATER THAN 1972 BY 1896 THE PHILIPPINES WAS ONE OF

THE MOST INDEBTED COUNTRIES IN ASIA

BUILT MORE SCOOLS, ROADS, BUILDINGS, HOSPITALS AND OTHERS.

external and internal forces, a restive and radicalized studentry demanding reforms in the educational system, a rising tide of criminality, subversion by the re- organized Communist movement, and secession in the south

On November 11, 1970, the whole nation was shocked when American actress Dovie Beams called a press conference, bringing with her a tape recorder containing erotic murmurs, moans and the genuine voice of President Marcos while making love with Beams.

CORAZON AQUINO

FIRST WOMEN TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES OR ANY ASIAN COUNTRY

RESTORED DEMOCRACY AMBOLISHED THE 1973 MARCOS

CNSTITUTION AND USHERED IN THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF THE PHILIPPINES

REORGANIZED THE STRUCTURE OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT

SIGNED THE FAMILY CODE OF 1987, MAJOR CIVIL LAW REFORM AND 1191 LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE, WHICH REORGANIZED THE STRUCTURE OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT

INITIATED CHARITABLE AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES HELPING THE POOR AND THE NEEDY

NAMED “WOMAN OF THE YEAR” IN 1986 BY TIME MAGAZINE

ON THE NEW 500 PESO BILL TOGETHER WITH HER HUSBAND

Imeldific jewelry.- When Marcos went into exile, did Cory Aquino's relatives and friends take from Malacañang seven (7) suitcases of Imelda's jewelry to be deposited in a doctor's house in Dasmariñas Village, Makati? Did only three (3) suitcases later surface to be deposited with the central bank? Did a relative of Cory Aquino commute between the Philippines and Hong Kong to have the Imeldific jewelries reset by a Hong Kong Milton Hotel jeweler to change their appearance? Didn't Cory Aquino admit on public TV that an Imeldific necklace ended up with her daughter Ballsy, but she supposedly told her to return it to Joker Arroyo? Didn't Joker Arroyo later say on TV that he doesn't remember Ballsy returning to him a necklace?

Romualdez companies.- Did Cory Aquino permit, during her first month in office, the transfer of the 38 companies owned by Marcos's brother-in-law, Kokoy Romualdez, to Aquino's own brother-in-law, Ricardo "Baby" Lopa? Weren't the assets of the Marcoses and the Romualdezes supposed to be sequestered by the new Aquino administration? Why were Kokoy Romualdez's 38 companies, worth billions of pesos, not turned over to the PCGG? How did Aquino come to decide by herself the questioned

ownership of the companies without resorting to the Sandiganbayan?

After the Marcos government sued the Cojuangcos to compel the distribution, didn't Cory Aquino as the new President secure the dismissal of the case before the Court of Appeals in 1988, through the government's own motion to dismiss by promising that the hacienda will be distributed anyway under its agrarian reform program? Aren't the Cojuangcos still in possession of the hacienda until today continuing its long-standing resistance to compulsory distribution?

FIDEL RAMOS oversaw Philippine economic growth presided over celebrations of Philippine

Independence Centennial in 1998 received British Knighthood from the

United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George)

hosted the fourth Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Leader's Summit in the Philippines in 1996

Philippine Stock Exchange became an international favorite during his presidency

death penalty reinstated while he was in office

signed peace agreement with the rebel Moro National Liberation Front

Prior to the Ramos Presidency, there were many coup d’état attempts and uprisings during the Aquino administration. This lead to a destabilized government. Politics were shaken and people started to lose their trust in the government. During the Ramos administration, civil liberty and government stability was restored.

The Philippines was experiencing widespread and frequent brownouts because of the huge demand for electricity and the old and depreciated power plants.

JOSEPH ESTRADA during his presidency Moro Islamic Liberation Front headquarters and camps were captured

joined other leaders and politicians to try to amend the 1987 Constitution

cited as one of the Three Outstanding Senators in 1989

among the “Magnificent 12” who voted to terminate the agreement that allows for U.S. control of Clark Airbase and Subic Naval Base

The economy is still in the doldrums despite the crowing of the International Monetary Fund. Industrial production dropped by 1.4 per cent in 1999. The value of the peso dropped by thirty-one per cent. Real unemployment is at fifty per cent of the labour force. By September 1999, around three million workers had lost their jobs to retrenchments and closures of industries.

Issues raised by the business sector focus on Estrada’s cronyism, especially the type of cronies he keeps, and his high-handed manner of dealing with the capitalist captains of

industry. One story circulating in business circles claims that Estrada summoned the head of a major telecommunications company in the dead of night and castigated him for not selling hisshares to Estrada’s cronies. The next day, reports had it that the shares had been sold forthwith

GLORIA ARROYO second female president of the country first and only female vice-president of

the Philippines so far first president to take oath outside

Luzon former Economics professor at the

Ateneo de Manila University, where current president Benigno Aquino III was one of her students

ex-classmate of former U.S. President Bill Clinton at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she maintained Dean’s list status

oversaw higher economic growth than the past three presidents before her

peso became the best-performing currency of the year in Asia in 2007

eVAT Law was implemented under her term

currently on the 200-peso bill

THE OAKWOOD MUTINY One of the accusations made by the soldiers was that the Arroyo administration was selling arms and ammunitions to the enemy forces. These enemy forces include the MILF and the Abu Sayyaf. Also they claim that Arroyo issued the order to bomb Davao City so that Arroyo would be able to ask the United States of America for anti-terrorist support. Arroyo also planned to bomb several areas in Metro Manila so that she could declare martial law.

HELLO GARCI CONTROVERSY The Hello “Garci” Controversy is about wiretapped recordings of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s conversations with COMELEC Commissioner Virgilio Garcilliano. The conversations was about rigging or cheating the 2004 national elections. Former NBI Deputy Director Samuel Ong released the wiretapped tapes; he also claimed that he had the “mother of all tapes” which was released a few days later. The National Telecommunications Commission initially banned the playing of the tapes in the media, and threatened that any media group who plays the tapes will be forced to close. The tape was then allowed by the Supreme Court to be aired by the media with a vote of 9 – 6, this was against the NTC’s decision.

BENIGNO AQUINO III

created the no "wang-wang" (street siren) policy

appointed statesman Jesse Robredo to serve as secretary of Interior and Local Government in 2010, where Robredo served until his death in 2012

initiated K-12 education in the

There may not be evidence yet of him pocketing public funds but he used public funds to fast track the impeachment trial of former Chief Justice Renato Corona by bribing and strong-arming members of Congress. The

Philippines renamed the Office of the Press

Secretary to Presidential Communications Operations Office and appointed new officers

suspended allowances and bonuses to Government Owed and Controlled Corporation and Government Financial Institution board members

oversaw 7.1% growth of the Philippine economy in 2012

revelation that he gave extra PDAF in the amount of Php 50 million to senators who voted to convict Corona is enough evidence to support this.

In the eyes of some people, he is plain evil. He seems hell-bent on persecuting his former college professor and former President Gloria Arroyo for allegations, which are proving to be false and malicious. So far, the charges against her keep getting dropped for lack of evidence.