{"id":43597,"date":"2015-02-26T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T09:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43597"},"modified":"2015-02-26T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T09:29:13","slug":"honasan-says-almonte-lied-in-his-published-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/26\/honasan-says-almonte-lied-in-his-published-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Honasan says Almonte lied in his published memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43598\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honasan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43598\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honasan.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Gregorio &quot;Gringo&quot; Honasan (Facebook photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honasan.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honasan-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Gregorio &#8220;Gringo&#8221; Honasan (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Contrary to claims made in the published memoir of former National Security Adviser Jose T. Almonte, Sen. Gregorio Honasan II said on Wednesday that he was not involved in a plot to assassinate Ferdinand Marcos and his family.<\/p>\n<p>Almonte\u2019s memoir, entitled \u201cEndless Journey: a Memoir\u201d says that Honasan plotted an assault on Malaca\u00f1ang Palace with the intent of killing the Marcoses.<\/p>\n<p>The former security head founded the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM), the core group of which included Honasan.<\/p>\n<p>Honasan, however, said that Almote\u2019s claim is an outright lie. Furthermore, Almontes\u2019 account of how he supposedly discouraged Honasan from staging military coup d&#8217;etats against Cory Aquino\u2019s administration was \u201cnot supported by fact,\u201d Honasan also said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy own take is you don\u2019t have to lie or distort history to sell a book,\u201d Honasan said in an interview with reporters; as he added that other members of the Ram could validate his denials of Almonte\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Almonte\u2019s book was launched on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Contrary to claims made in the published memoir of former National Security Adviser Jose T. Almonte, Sen. Gregorio &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":43598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}