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Official page of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) This tradition lives on.
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The Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) was borne out of necessity in 1974, shortly after the Southeast Asian country was placed under martial law by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. As his government began curtailing freedom of the press, a few foreign correspondents led by Teodoro Benigno, then the bureau chief of Agence France-Presse, created the institution that ch

allenged the narrative of the authoritarian regime to the world. Amidst all the media darkness at that time, FOCAP held court under full lights, and has continued to do so the past 45 years. The group’s constitution and by-laws say, among other things, that FOCAP was formed to “achieve an effective and harmonious relationship between the government and the working members of the foreign press.” It effectively meant that the organization was offering itself as a bulwark against efforts to intimidate and harass the foreign press, a guiding principle that FOCAP carries to this day. As the Marcos government cracked down on the press, padlocking press offices and detaining journalists for reports that questioned excesses, members of FOCAP continued with their work and relentlessly stood their ground.

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