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Jun Factoran

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Jun Factoran died from a longtime illness on April 5, 2020, at the age of 76. He was predeceased by his wife, Kaye Mesina, and survived by their four children, Yazmin, Gertrude Anne, Fulgencio III, and Roberto Carlo.
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from 1987 until 1992. During his tenure as DENR Secretary, Factoran revoked many of the logging concessions that had been awarded during Marcos' rule. He created new programs to promote
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for her 1993 book "Power from the Forest: The Politics of Logging" to expose the abuses of the country's natural resources during the Marcos regime.
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which ousted Marcos, Factoran was appointed as deputy executive secretary to President Corazon Aquino from March 1986 to 1987.
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in the United States. A longtime lawyer, he was the managing partner of Factoran & Associates Law Offices in Manila.
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He later served in leadership positions at several government-run corporations, including the
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Secretaries of environment and natural resources of the Philippines
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dictatorship. After the restoration of democracy, he served in the
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Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (Philippines)
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Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (Philippines)
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Fulgencio Santos Factoran was born on November 3, 1943, in
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of his law class. He then completed a Master of Law at
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Human Rights Violations Victims' Memorial Commission
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Index

Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources
Corazon Aquino
Carlos Dominguez III
Orion
Bataan
Philippines
Alma mater
University of the Philippines
Harvard University
human rights activist
pro-democracy
freedom of the press in the Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos
Cabinet
President
Corazon Aquino
Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (Philippines)
Martial Law era
Orion
Bataan
Bachelor of Arts
humanities
Bachelor of Laws
University of the Philippines
valedictorian
Harvard Law School
martial law under Ferdinand Marcos
Jejomar Binay
Marcos
People Power Revolution

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