00:00Former Senator, Defense Chief, and Martial Law Architect Juan Ponce Enrile has died at age 101.
00:07He was, until his death, the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel of the Marcos Jr. Administration.
00:12Enrile's daughter, Katrina, announced his demise on her Facebook page.
00:16She says Enrile died on Thursday, November 13, at 4.21 p.m., at home, surrounded by family.
00:23Born on Valentine's Day in 1924, Enrile has lived through nearly all Philippine presidencies
00:28except that of the first, Emilio Aguinaldo.
00:31Enrile entered the government under the Marcos Sr. Administration,
00:34eventually becoming Defense Minister and Chief Implementer of Martial Law under the dictatorship.
00:40He became a politician in the succeeding decades, outlasting and outliving many of his contemporaries.
00:45It has earned him a reputation as a consummate political survivor.
00:50In 2014, Enrile was charged with plunder and graft in connection with the pork barrel corruption scam.
00:55He was then briefly placed under hospital arrest, but was cleared of all charges by the Sandigan Bayan just last October.
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