We encourage the migration. I repeat, this is a market we should take advantage of.” What was good for Melbourne and Dubai was good for Manila. “Instead of stopping them from going abroad, why don’t we produce more? I repeat, if they want one thousand nurses, we produce a thousand more.” “I repeat, I repeat,” Milagros ranted to Jim, in jail. “What are we—deaf, his people, or a nation of idiots? Produce more? Were we built on an assembly line?” “Every good dictator loves a brain drain,” Jim said. “I’m not going anywhere,” said Milagros. Ever since Papa had splashed his slogan on billboards all
...more
