Angara takes a dig at Aquino
By Angie M. Rosales 10/22/2010Four days may have already passed since the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council’s (NDRRMC) meeting where President Aquino, who was supposed to preside, was a no-show but the incident did not come to pass with some keen observers.
One of them was Sen. Edgardo Angara as he took a dig at the Chief Executive by comparing the manner in which Chilean President Sebastian Piñera played his role in the successful rescue of miners, all 33 of them who were trapped half a mile, for almost 70 days, beneath Atacama desert.
“Isn’t it embarrassing that we tried to rescue people and we ended up killing all of them? Whereas Chile, tried to rescue 33 people and they rescued 33 people? The stark contrast is really discomforting. The right in being a Filipino, that is whatis the essence (of the issue),” the senator said during the weekly Kapihan sa Senado, in comparing the two governments’ handling of crisis that caught international media attention.
“The hostage (crisis), that’s really embarrassing because it was televised. In Chile, it was also televised but you feel a sense of pride, you realize that this Chilean government is so smart, intelligent..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101022hed4.html
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