Marcos Jr.’s tour around New York City is a slap in the face of the Filipino people, given that the paper trail of plundered public funds by the Marcoses includes Marcos Sr.’s purchase of four New York City buildings as a gift to wife Imelda, while the dictatorship plunged the Philippines into mass joblessness and debt that is still being paid off by the Philippine people over three decades later.
By: Leila B. Salaverria – Reporter / Philippine Daily Inquirer /December 13, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Filipino American groups disputed President Rodrigo Duterte’s statements at a recent US-led summit that the Philippines has a “vibrant democracy,” saying his administration has attempted to silence and Red-tag critics, waged a war on drugs that targeted the poor,…
Human rights activists in the US displayed “tsinelas” across Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. to protest the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. They called the US Congress to block US security assistance to the Philippines and to stop funding the Philippine police and military.According to the International Coalition for Human Rights, each pair represented 10…