WIRE — LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET—For nearly four decades, the Cordillera has carried an unfinished promise written into the 1987 Constitution—the creation of an autonomous region that would allow the country's indigenous highlands to govern themselves while preserving their culture, ancestral lands, and identity. Yet when President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address

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