Background
Pimentel, Benjamin Impelido was born on June 20, 1964 in Manila, Philippines. Son of Benjamin C. and Isabel (Impelido) Pimentel.
(In 1969, Ferdinand Marcos won a second term as president,...)
In 1969, Ferdinand Marcos won a second term as president, in one of the dirtiest campaigns in Philippine history. That same year, Edgar Jopson was elected president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines, in a campaign to keep the Communists out of the student movement. Thirteen years later Jopson was gunned down by the military during a raid on an underground safehouse. He was by then one of the most wanted people in the country, with a price on his head, a leading Communist Party cadre and member of the urban underground. Jopson was an unusual individual, and his story is a fascinating one. Yet his experiences were those of a generation of student radicals that came of age in the 1970s, and galvanized a country to action in the 1980s. Thus this book is not just the biography of one person, it is the history of a generation.
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Pimentel, Benjamin Impelido was born on June 20, 1964 in Manila, Philippines. Son of Benjamin C. and Isabel (Impelido) Pimentel.
Bachelor in Political Science, University The Philippines, 1985. M.Journalism, University California, Berkeley, 1993.
Staff writer, National Midweek magazine, Manila, 1986-1989; general assignment, Asian American affairs and transportation reporter, San Francisco Chronicle, since 1993.
(In 1969, Ferdinand Marcos won a second term as president,...)
Member Asian American Journalists Association.
Married Maria Teresita Torres, December 23, 1992.