Marcos Legacy Revisited: Raiders of the Lost Gold

Issues surrounding the much talked about Marcos Gold for several decades now.
Author's Notes:
|A compromise among the concerned parties will
successfully fast track the much-awaited distribution of the
Marcos earthly possessions. It is high time for the government to
consider setting up a Gold Commission and appropriately
declassifying the members of the late President's (FM) "Umbrella
Foundation". Then and only then can we ascertain if there indeed
is an iota of truth to this fabulous fortune, or if it is simply just
another grand sting operation of such great magnitude.
So many stones have circulated about the so-called fabled
Marcos gold hoard; A good number of con-artists, carpetbaggers,
and operators nave all provided conflicting data and information
about those treasures, either to make a fast buck or to aggravate
the mounting confusion, so that, in the end, no one would
eventually believe that this hoard did exist after all.
Our leaders should carefully consider how to deal with
the other country claimants and the banking Mafia (big bankers
who keep these fabled war loots). We do not have to fight them,
we just need to get what's due us and what's rightfully ours. This
will be the great big challenge to the administration.
President Ramos has started it, and has led us to our exit from the
International Monetary Fund in March 1998. If President
Estrada does it right, coupled with his undoubtedly close
relationship with the Marcoses, his administration is bound to
achieve more. Let us start getting our act together. And may the
good God usher our new leaders toward this end.