Kaban ni D_BystandeR; SINUKLIAY SA HUNAHUNA

D_BystandeR:

This is a rare biography of a very distinguished and a hard-to-find breed of a woman in the person of Cecile Guidote-Alvarez, a 1972 Ramon Magsaysay awardee, whose exploits during the critical period of Marcos dictatorship could be easily credited with success like a "one-in-a million" story. And the breath-taking odyssey that finally resulted to her daring success to pull out a plan, despite the highly entrenched martial rule apparatus at work at that time, to be able to connect to her beloved soul-mate Sonny Alvarez, who was able to get out of the country earlier less than two months after the declaration of martial law on September 21, 1972, in a highly suspenseful act that only a lady of her caliber, with the fierceness of an untamed lion and with a remarkable and unyielding valor of a determined achiever of "nearly impossible" things can do it. She should be highly commended for that.

(Note: The father of Sonny Alvarez, who would later on be elected as a Senator during Cory's presidency, died of heart attack when Sonny's younger brother, Marsman, died at the hands of his tormentor to force him to give the whereabouts of his brother. Marsman's head was bashed, his eyes gouged, and his body was dumped inside the churchyard of Santiago, Isabela in Nueva Ecija. This was among the horrible things that took place during FM's martial law regime.)

Cogito728sum: (to D_BystandeR)

You paid her a very good tribute. Kudos to you. Merci!

Footnote: This exchange of comments took place in connection with an article written by Cecile Guidote-Alvarez for PDI, entitled, "Love in the time of martial law: The escape." It came out on 09/24/15/