MANILA – In 1980, my father arrived in the United States to undergo a heart bypass, due to the rigors of his imprisonment by the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. The dictatorship offered him a reprieve, but, true to its nature, one dependent on its whims.
发自马尼拉——1980年，我父亲在独裁者费迪南德·马科斯的牢狱迫害之下心脏病发，前往美国接受搭桥手术。当时独裁政府还口是心非地许诺给予我父亲缓刑。政府操纵下的法庭早已判决要枪毙我父亲，但他仍然拒绝屈服，因为在他心中“为菲律宾人民而死，死得其所”。