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The Duterte-Marcos Connection

Are there any available documents or accounts showing the Dutertes and the Marcoses had a very close personal relationship prior to the leadup to the 2016 elections? In an academic workshop last year, a former journalist claimed that he had never known Duterte to praise Marcos when he was mayor of Davao City in the 1990s. What do we really know about the purported ties of these political families?

The Duterte-Marcos Connection

​Scammers sell Marcos ‘legacy’ to poor Pinoys

They said they came to collect the P10,000 they were promised every month for the next four years as claimants to their share of the Marcos wealth. The proof of their claim: a pamphlet purchased for P30, extolling Marcos for his ‘immortal legacy.’

​Scammers sell Marcos ‘legacy’ to poor Pinoys

PCGG to probe Marcos’ secret wealth in Australia

THE Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) will look into the reported ill-gotten wealth of the late president Ferdinand Marcos in Australia believed to be under the name of a former swimsuit model whose daughter was reportedly dropped from a reality TV show after producers learned her father was the Philippine dictator.

PCGG  to probe Marcos’ secret wealth in Australia