MANILA: As Joseph “Erap” Estrada’s presidency fell in 2001, the government that was brought to power by the protest of millions of people on EDSA started to exact accountability from the one who once promised to lift the poor out of poverty.
But while it ended well, Estrada eventually walked out of prison, only a few weeks after his conviction for two counts of plunder, and for a UP Diliman professor of political science, it was a clear indication that “the powerful have advantages.”
