Marcos clan wins big in mid-term polls
The family of dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos enjoyed easy wins in the mid-term elections, official data showed Tuesday, with his unrepentant 83-year-old wife leading the clan’s political charge.
The family of dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos enjoyed easy wins in the mid-term elections, official data showed Tuesday, with his unrepentant 83-year-old wife leading the clan’s political charge.
Despite the notion that enmity runs deep between the Enriles and the Marcoses, Cagayan Representative Jack Enrile on Sunday said that the two clans are no longer at war.
More than 140 paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and other masters which were bought with stolen funds by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos remain missing, the government said Tuesday.
To refresh the memory of younger Filipinos about the country’s experience under martial law during the Marcos regime, several youth groups are gunning for 40,000 “likes” or approving clicks on a Facebook page dedicated to the dark era’s unsung heroes.
The Philippine government on Tuesday auctioned off a prime property once owned by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos for more than $2 million.
The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) has contested the Sandiganbayan decision dismissing the P50-billion ill-gotten wealth case against the Marcos and Ver families, former Trade Minister Roberto Ongpin and the participants in the so-called Binondo central bank, claiming the case was resolved too early and questioning the court’s “procedural shortcuts.”
Victims of human rights abuse during the Marcos martial law regime may be a step closer to receiving state compensation for their suffering.
Two Catholic bishops on Tuesday expressed concern over the Monday impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Police have busted a syndicate that recruits elderly slum-dwellers in Metro Manila to pose as victims of human rights abuses during martial law so they can each claim $1,000 from the $10 million in ill-gotten wealth recovered from the Marcoses.
Is this a joke? We’ll wait for the next president, Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos said. President Benigno Aquino scuppered bids to inter Ferdinand Marcos’ remains in Libingan ng mga Bayani.
The issue of the proposed Marcos burial in the Libingan ng mga Bayani has been hounding us for some time. President Noynoy Aquino had the opportunity to address the issue and clarified that there will be no burial in the heroes’ cemetery for the former dictator during his watch.
I learned that Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. was returning from the United States two months before his fateful arrival on Aug. 21, 1983.
In real sense, a nation’s future lay on the operating table before me. Former Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., whose life and death changed the course of Philippine history, was on the verge of a heart attack.
