Activist, economist Boy Morales dies
03/01/2012Prominent activist and politician Horacio “Boy” Morales Jr. passed away yesterday after more than two months of being in coma due to a heart stroke, his second, that he suffered while playing golf in Baguio City last December.
Morales was the former Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary under former President Joseph Estrada and was a notable figure in the underground left during the martial law rule of former President Ferdinand Marcos.
He was born in Moncada, Tarlac on Sept. 11, 1943. He entered government service in 1965, joining the economic staff of President Ferdinand Marcos as a senior economist and eventually became the executive vice-president of the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP)..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120301hed5.html
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