{"id":8202,"date":"2016-09-29T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T04:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=8202"},"modified":"2016-09-29T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T04:35:07","slug":"former-philippine-senator-miriam-defensor-santiago-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/former-philippine-senator-miriam-defensor-santiago-dies-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Philippine senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Known as a feisty senator, an award-winning government servant and the \u201cIron Lady of Asia,\u201d Miriam Defensor-Santiago (MDS) has passed away at age 71 after battling with Stage IV- Lung Cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8203\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/miriam-e1475121837226.jpg\" alt=\"miriam\" width=\"663\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/miriam-e1475121837226.jpg 663w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/miriam-e1475121837226-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/miriam-e1475121837226-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO. The Iron Lady of Asia has passed away on September 29. Photo grabbed from Rappler.com<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to her husband, Atty. Jun Santiago, via <em>GMA News<\/em>, &#8220;She died peacefully in her sleep this morning&#8221; (September 29, Thursday).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Defensor-Santiago was a well-known Filipino politician who served in all three branches of government in the country. She was also named as one of \u201cThe 100 Most Powerful Women in the World\u201d in 1997 by an Australian Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">She also ran for presidency in the Philippines in 1992, 1998, and in 2016. Serving three terms in the Philippine Senate, Defensor-Santiago was recognized for authoring the most number of laws and bills in the entire history of Philippine government. She is also known for her no-nonsense style of leadership, addressing the nation\u2019s problem in graft and corruption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">MDS was also a laureate of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service, and the first Asian to be elected as a judge of the International Criminal Court. She later resigned the post and in 2014, the former lawmaker announced that she had stage IV Lung Cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">MDS passed away at 8:52 am while confined at St. Luke\u2019s Medical Center in Bonifacio Global City. She is survived by her husband and son Narciso Santiago III.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/583161\/news\/nation\/former-senator-miriam-defensor-santiago-dies-at-age-71\" target=\"_blank\">GMA News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/147672-miriam-defensor-santiago-dies\" target=\"_blank\">Rappler<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as a feisty senator, an award-winning government servant, and the \u201cIron Lady of Asia,\u201d Miriam Defensor-Santiago (MDS) has passed away at age 71 after battling with Stage IV- Lung Cancer. According to her husband Atty. Jun Santiago via GMA News, \u201cShe died peacefully in her sleep this morning, September 29 (Thursday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/miriam-e1475121837226.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8208,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions\/8208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}