Forty five years ago, a Filipino exile in
san Francisco by the name of Alex Esclamado started publishing a newspaper out of his garage. Esclamado and his family had fled the Philippines to escape the oppression of the martial law regime of the late President Ferdinand Marcos.
Esclamado, as part of the overseas Filipino anti-Marcos movement, initially named his paper The Manila Chronicle, which was in fact one of the major Philippine newspapers shut down by the regime. Later he would ren...
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