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During the long years of the Marcos regime, towns, schools and barangays were named after members of the dictator’s family. Marcos had no scruples about naming even a barangay after himself before he first set foot in Malacañang as president of the Republic.
Lumabag daw sa “Safe Spaces Act” ang isang reporter na nagko-cover sa Malacañang kaya hindi siya binigyan ng accreditation. Sapat ba itong dahilan para pagbawalan ang isang mamamahayag na gampanan ang kanyang trabaho?
It is significant to note that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. chose Indonesia as his first entry to the world stage first week of September.
Congress leaders have given an assurance that the legislature won’t be a rubber stamp of the president despite having a so-called supermajority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and presidential relatives occupying important positions in both chambers.
Pakinggan ang pangalawang komentaryo ng batikang mamamahayag na si Christian Esguerra para sa VERA Files.
“I came here because of my sincere conviction that the time had come to reverse the situation,” Fidel V. Ramos announced after breaking with the Marcos regime in February 1986.
Ilocanos are stereotyped as being kuripot (stingy with money). President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., an Ilocano, showed this side of him when he vetoed four bills approved by the previous Congress.
“We will not revise anything. All we will do is to also make known our side of the story,” Imee Marcos said in an ANC interview last June 1.
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In a speech in Abra six years ago, then-vice presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. vowed that he would not follow in the footsteps of his father, the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos.