Sara retracts social media post praising EDSA revolt

Vice President Sara Duterte appears to have retracted her Feb. 25 statement on the 38th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, that called on the people to always remember the sacrifices of the Filipinos who united to topple the dictatorship of President Marcos’ father.

- NEIL JAYSON SERVALLOS

Duterte said despite the supposed gaffe last Sunday, she defers to her 2017 statement on EDSA, a portion of which reads: “I find it hard to understand why this bloodless revolution has become the standard definition of freedom for our country and this standard is forced down our throats by a certain group of individuals who think they are better than everyone else.”

The statement in 2017 was in an open letter she addressed to Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, who criticized how thenpresident Rodrigo Duterte “singlehandedly defaced” the memory of the popular uprising.