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.
Lucille Sodipe – Agence France-Presse September 20, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — American lawyer Thomas Jones still remembers the scars of Philippine torture victims he interviewed for Amnesty International inside the country’s detention centers in 1975 during the rule of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. But Marcos, who presided over widespread abuses and corruption during his 20…
Jan Cuyco – Philstar.com, July 14, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Following the launch of Project Gunita, a citizen-led online archive of Martial Law era materials, it seems as though the heavy task of memorializing a nation’s dark past is over for its 19-year-old project co-founder Karl Patrick Suyat. But archiving is only the beginning, Suyat…
By Jeline Malasig, June 30, 2022, Interaksyon.philstar.com The hashtag “#NeverForget” entered Twitter Philippines’ trending list as Ferdinand Marcos Jr. gets inducted into the Office of the President for a six-year term beginning June 30. Marcos Jr. was inaugurated at the National Museum of Fine Arts where he took his oath before Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo. The…
Sep 19, 2020, Camille Elemia Marcos controlled people’s access and the kind of information they got and made sure he has the final say on his so-called truth When the late ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos imposed Martial Law on September 21, 1972 via Proclamation 1081, the first casualty was the country’s free press and mass…
Domingo Guevara: The road to industrialization Berry Pelaez-Marfori – The Philippine Star ,January 27, 2013 MANILA, Philippines – Domingo M. Guevara Street, formerly known as Libertad, is one of Mandaluyong’s busiest thoroughfares. It is also the name of a self-made industrialist closely associated with a number of well-known brands in the 60s and 70s and…
By: Tina G. Santos – Reporter/ Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 21, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Several Catholic bishops on Sunday urged Filipinos not to forget the lessons of martial law, which was declared by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos 48 years ago, amid charges that the Marcoses are bent on revising history to erode its…