Found in one of the archives of The Visayan Daily Star. Excerpts from Ninfa R. Leonardia's farewell to Nena (Carolina) Lacson Garcia in 2015:
But Nena was also a fighter for causes. When the sugar industry was threatened during the days of the dictatorship, she was one of the most outspoken and blunt in her criticisms. At one time, the late sugar industry leader, Roberto S. Benedicto, set an interview with me and two other journalists from Bacolod, to be done in a TV station run by his company in Manila. It was about the current issues heating up between the industry leaders and local planters.
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Nena was one of those who fed me with the most biting questions, and when I dared to ask them of RSB, knowing that all the planters in Negros were watching, she told me later that they clapped very hard for me. I asked her if they noted that my hands were shaking and my voice cracking, and she just laughed. “At least you got the point across,” she said. But good and loyal as she was as a friend, she could also be brutally frank when she is aggrieved and in the right. Even journalists who crossed her got their come-uppance.
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