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Category: Commentary

  • Marcos Australia connection
    Categories Commentary Marcos Files

    Marcos’ Australia connection

    By Ellen Tordesillas  |  May 19, 2022 10:02 AM

    Taking off from the news that presumptive President Ferdinand Marcos Jr is in Australia, former PCGG Commissioner Ruben Carranza reposted a 2011 VERA Files story about Analisa Hegyesi, the daughter of the late President Ferdinand Marcos with Australian model, Evelyn Hegyesi.

    Australia, bongbong marcos

  • Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    Pablo Picasso finally shows up

    By Antonio Montalvan II  |  May 17, 2022 5:30 PM

    The British Broadcasting Corporation, in a 2014 reportage, said that a group of artworks were seized from Imelda Marcos by order of the court. Among these was a painting that […]

    bongbong marcos, Imelda Marcos

  • Marcos Jr
    Categories Commentary Editor's Pick PHL Vote 2022

    To whom much is given, much is required

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  May 16, 2022 12:27 PM

    When he assumes the presidency, Marcos Jr. and his spokesperson cannot simply turn away or completely ignore questions that demand transparency and accountability.

    bongbong marcos, Elections 2022

  • Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    Who won the elections?

    By Antonio J. Montalvan II  |  May 13, 2022 5:17 PM

    One of the most incredible lies that went the rounds this election, shared in a thousand or more algorithms on social media, was that Leni Robredo cheated Ferdinand Marcos Jr. […]

    bongbong marcos, Leni Robredo, Marcos disinformation

  • Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    Legacy as motivation

    By Jose Bayani Baylon  |  May 09, 2022 3:48 PM

    For the first time I am voting in my father’s hometown. And as I write this I am inside the Alaminos Central Elementary School, one in over a few hundreds of registered residents who have come out to exercise our most sacred right to vote.

    Elections 2022

  • Voters waiting for their turn to vote in a Quezon City village in the 2019 polls
    Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    Moving forward after a divisive election campaign

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  May 09, 2022 11:15 AM

    Political wounds may take time to heal completely, but the process should begin slowly soon after the votes are counted.

    Elections 2022

  • Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    History is made

    By Antonio Montalvan II  |  May 08, 2022 1:13 PM

    The 1986 political campaign of Cory Aquino was propelled by widespread indignation at the assassination of her husband, Ninoy, and the belief that a clique within the Marcos government had planned it.

    Elections 2022

  • Bongbong Marcos kissing mother Imelda July 2 2016
    Categories Commentary Editor's Pick Marcos Files PHL Vote 2022

    The Bongbong and Imelda Marcos deuterium dud

    By Miguel Paolo P. Reyes and Joel F. Ariate Jr.  |  May 07, 2022 10:03 PM

    If surveys on the fast-approaching elections hold, the Philippines will soon have a president who has difficulty discerning fact from pseudoscience — the way his mother also does.

    bongbong marcos, deuterium, Imelda Marcos

  • Talaandig Indigenous Women campaigning for Leni-Kiko in Brgy. Don Alejandro, Agusan del Sur
    Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    Why are Indigenous Women taking a stand for Leni-Kiko?

    By Judy Pasimio and Jayneca Reyes*  |  May 05, 2022 10:25 AM

    For the indigenous women, this election is a battle for life, dignity, and the defense of the land.

    Elections 2022, indigenous people, indigenous women

  • Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

           A telltale phone call from Bongbong Marcos       

    By Antonio J. Montalvan II  |  May 02, 2022 9:42 PM

    It could have been the first ever public documentary of the Marcos family plunder and it was aired on American television.

    bongbong marcos

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