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WHEN the life of the most promising leader of the third-generation Lopez clan, Iloilo governor Benito V. Lopez, was snuffed out by a bullet at the age of 30, that was the beginning of the story of the ascent of his two young sons, Fernando and Eugenio, to prominence in national politics and the economy. This is the story told in some works of excellent historical scholarship: Alfred McCoy's 1993 critical historical article titled "Rent-Seeking Families and the Philippine State: A History of the Lopez Family" in "An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines"; Raul Rodrigo and Oscar M. Lopez's sympathetic two-volume set, "Phoenix: The Saga of the Lopez Family, 1800-1999"; and the huge art book by Rodrigo, "Undaunted: The Lopez Legacy, 1800-2010." They tell the same story but from two different perspectives.
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