IT’S written in the cards. Fervent prayers will be needed for what lies ahead, says fortune teller Gloria Yasay, better known as Ate Glo.
We are in for tumultuous times — nothing new perhaps. If Ate Glo’s predictions come true, elections will push through next year, but only if a majority of people will demand so.
As divined from the tarot cards, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will finish her term in 2010. A man will succeed her as the country’s next president. Ate Glo warns though that the presence of a card bearing the likeness of the Grim Reaper signifies that he will experience great pain, illness, or maybe even death. (The Death Card though does not always portend a literal death as it can be a sign of cleansing, a promise to begin again on a clean slate.)
Videographer: Avigail Olarte
Video editor: Red Valdez
In this issue:
- (Not quite) a great leap forward
- Elections in a depreciated democracy
- The 2010 vision
- Video: Dire prospects
- Ending the Communist insurgency
- A stronger revolutionary movement
- Confronting peace, battling stereotypes
- The Church as the people’s moral compass
- Restarting the political and electoral reforms train
- The economy: Walking on a knife’s edge
- A reconfigured Filipino family
- Reality bites
- Keeping in tune with 2010
- Video: ‘Ate Glo’ speaks