Manuel lopez meralco biography for kids

The Lopezes are an influential family with roots in Iloilo, a province in the Visayas in central Philippines.

They made their money from businesses such as sugar plantations and shipping.

The founder of ABS-CBN was a fourth-generation Lopez: Eugenio Lopez Sr., son of former Iloilo governor Benito Lopez and brother of former Vice President Fernando Lopez.

Eugenio Lopez Sr., a University of the Philippines and Harvard-educated lawyer, as well as one of the heirs to the Lopez family empire and owner of Chronicle Broadcasting Network, bought Alto Broadcasting System from Antonio Quirino, brother of former President Elpidio Quirino, on February 24, 1957.

When President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law on September 21, 1972, ABS-CBN was one of the stations that were seized by government forces.

Lopez’s eldest son and namesake, Eugenio “Geny” Lopez Jr. was imprisoned for supposedly conspiring to assassinate the president. Geny managed