Primitivo Mijares - The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

Primitivo Mijares

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Primitivo Mijares Testimony in US Congress

"After our last footnote updating this paper, Marcos top confidentialpress man, Primitivo Mijares, Chairman of the Media Advisory Council andtwice President of the National Press Club with Marcos' support, testified in theU.S. (House) Subcommittee on International Organizations which heldhearings on violations of human rights in South Korea and the Philip-pines. Mr. Marcos attempted to bribe Mijares with $100,000 not to testify butthe latter spumed the bribe. Marcos denied the attempted bribery but from ascrutiny of Mijares' testimony, the statement of denial and the cir-cumstances described, the prob ability favors Mijares. Mr. Marcos deniedmainly the reported bnliery but not the contents of the testimony of his erstwhileconfidential press man. Considering that Mijares was an "insider in thePhilippines, Mijares' testimony carries much weight.

Diosdado Macapagal Statement

"If Mijares were not credible, he would not have merited refutation byMr. Marcos himself as well us a formal exculpatory inquiry into the Mijarescharges by the senior Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs " DIOSDADO P.MACAPAGAL, former President of the Philippines, in his latest book,Democracy in the Philippines.

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To the Filipino People

Who dramatized in theBattle of Mactan of April 27, 1521,their rejection of a foreign tyrannysought to be imposed byFerdinand Magellan, that they maysoon recover lost courage and,with greater vigor and determination,rid the Philippines of the evil ruleof a home-grown tyrantwith the same initials.

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About the Author

by Cris D. Cabasares, written in 1976

PRIMITIVO "TIBO" MIJARES Is a 44-year-old newspapermans news-paperman, the highlights of whose life may even be more colorful than the manhe writes about In this book. For, really, what will Ferdinand E. Marcos be, Ifyou take away his self-serving and self-created World War II exploits?

Mijares went through that world conflagration experiencing as a young boya tragedy and horror that would have driven hardened and matured men stark-raving mad. He was but 12 years old when he came upon the mutilated bodiesof his slain mother, dead from the bayonet thrusts of Japanese soldiers, andhis father, dying from both Japanese bayonet and bullet wounds, in the smokingruins of their home.

Mijares was to narrowly escape death from the massacre and burning byretreating Japanese soldiers of his hometown of Santo Tomas, Batangas, inthe Philippines, only because a few hours earlier he had led as the eldest childhis other younger sisters and brother out into the country to clear a field forplanting.

While his gunsmith father, Jose, was busy turning out home-made pistols,called locally as paltiks for the resistance movement, young Mijares served asthe driver or cochero for the familys horse-drawn rig, carretela, used in thedelivery of vinegar to outlying towns. In between supplying guns to theguerrillas, the Mijares family was engaged in the fermentation of that liquid sonecessary to the Filipino palate.

When the Japanese military one day decided to commandeer all the horsesIn the town, Mijares persuaded the Japanese to allow him to drive his carretelahome to unload the empty vinegar jars before surrendering his horse. But alongthe way Mijares pretended to be yelling orders at his horse, although actuallyhe was shouting, in the local dialect unknown to the Japanese soldiers ridingbeside him, to his townmates to hide their horses.

After World War II, the four Mijares orphans were distributed among theirmothers uncles with the girls joining an uncle in Borneo, now Sabah, and theboys staying in the Philippines. Tibo went to school near Baguio where hisuncle, an agriculturist, was stationed. He edited the high school newspaper,was elected president of his graduating class and finished as valedictorian.

Mijares became the youngest editor of the Baguio Midland Courier, thebiggest city newspaper, in 1950. He became a full-pledge reporter the sameday he joined the defunct Manila Chronicle on August 15,1951, covering all themajor beats.

Nights Mijares pursued his college studies, finishing his Bachelor of Artsdegree in 1956, and Bachelor of Laws in 1960, at the Lyceum of the Philippines.He passed the Philippine bar examinations also in 1960.

Tibo figured in the most tumultuous events of his country. He was withArsenio H. Lacson, the best and most colorful mayor Manila ever had, whenLacson, under the machineguns of armed forces armored cars, practicallycursed into retreat back to camp the first attempt to impose martial law in thecity.

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Tibo was both a star witness and active participant in the greatest singleupheaval to hit the Philippines. The full story is, of course, in this book.

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Original Cover of the 1976 Edition

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Contents

Authors Foreword - 7Acknowledgment - 9

Chapter I - A Summer Night in Washington, D.C. -10

Chapter II - 'Manila-Gate' - 34