MARY’S MEDIA IN THE COLD WAR PHILIPPINES

As one of the world’s predominantly Catholic countries with deep ties to the United States, the Philippines was wholly affected by the movements and ideologies of global Catholic anticommunism, particularly from the 1940s through the second half of the 1960s. The Second World War left the country in shambles, legally independent of American colonial rule but still wholly dependent on American economic aid. As in other countries of Southeast Asia, fledgling democracies contended with discontented groups across classes that agitated for changes in the political and economic status quo. Even before the war, in the earlier part of the twentieth