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Mendiola Street, Manila
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'''Mendiola Street''' is a short thoroughfare in the district of
San Miguel, Manila San Miguel in
Manila, the capital of the
Philippines. Mendiola Street starts from the intersection of Legarda and Claro M. Recto Avenues and ends just outside
Malacañang Palace, the official residence of the
President of the Philippines. Mendiola is famous for being the venue for protest actions against an incumbent government and is the site to some colleges and universities that form the area of Manila known as the "University Belt".
Because of the tight security at the Malacañang Palace, authorities decided to close half of Mendiola Street starting from the sentinel gate infront of the College of the Holy Spirit and La Consolacion College to protect the palace from different forms of threats. Vehicles were then diverted to Concepcion Aguila Street, a narrow side street that passes through residential areas of San Miguel.
Protests
1970
Mendiola Street has been witness to violent confrontations between protesters and government troops. During the administration of
Ferdinand Marcos, Mendiola Street was the site of massive protest marches from January to March
1970 which often resulted into violent dispersals and clashes between protesters and riot police in what is now being called by activists and political analysts as the
First Quarter Storm.
1987
On
January 22,
1987, crowd control troops open fired on a protest rally of about 10,000 peasant farmers demanding genuine land reform from then President
Corazon Aquino. Thirteen of the protestors were killed and hundreds more were injured in that incident which is now called the
Mendiola Massacre.
2001
On
May 1,
2001, supporters of
President of the Philippines President Joseph Estrada, angered by his arrest following his
EDSA II ouster from power earlier that year, marched to Mendiola Street after staging demonstrations outside the
EDSA Shrine demanding the release of Estrada. A violent confrontation ensued between Estrada supporters and members of the
Philippine National Police and the
Armed Forces of the Philippines, who were then tasked by President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to secure
Malacañang Palace and the areas surrounding it, occurred in Mendiola Street and the vicinity around Malacañang Palace after the protesters tried to storm the Palace. Casualties were high on both the Estrada supporters and government troops. Damage to property along Mendiola Street and areas within the vicinity of Malacañang Palace costed millions of pesos as a result of looting of stores and shops and burning of several government and private vehicles by the protesters.
Category:Roads in the Philippines
