MANILA,
Philippines (AP) — Delegates attending
an international conference in the Philippines capital may not see what they
came to discuss: abject poverty.
A
makeshift, temporary wall has been erected across a bridge on a road from the
airport to downtown Manila that hides a sprawling slum along a garbage-strewn
creek.
A
Philippine official expressed hope Thursday that the Asian Development Bank
conference will show the Philippines is open for business.
Presidential
spokesman Ricky Carandang also defended the wall’s installation, saying “any
country will do a little fixing up before a guest comes.”
The
Philippine Communist Party recalled that former first lady Imelda Marcos was
ridiculed for trying to hide squatter colonies.
AP
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