VERA FilesMarcos Files contains articles on the Marcos family, including those about Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., that VERA Files has published.
One hundred forty three sites in Luzon have been put up to memorialize the Marcos family, according to a study by the University of the Philippines (UP Third World Studies Center (TWSC).
Even in pro-Marcos propaganda about Ferdinand Sr.’s war-time exploits, there is no direct link between Marcos and the USS Gar.
It was an April Fools’ day story that played out in the pages of the Bangkok Post 50 years ago, but the ending lies buried among the papers that the Marcos family left behind when they fled Malacañang in 1986.
A video on YouTube claims that the wealth of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. allegedly totals up to quadrillions of dollars. This has no basis. On Nov. 13, a YouTube channel published the video that is still making the rounds online this week. Its headline read: ”Mga Hari, Monarch at Lider Ng ASEAN Kinikilala si PBBM […]
Sa ika-12 episode ng #WhatTheF?! podcast, pakinggan sina Joel Ariate Jr., Miguel Paolo Reyes at Larah Del Mundo, mga mananaliksik ng Third World Studies Center sa University of the Philippines, kung paano nila binuo ang librong “Marcos Lies:”
Sept. 23, 2022 marked the 50th year since Ferdinand Marcos Sr. proclaimed martial law on television. It has been decades since his ouster from office. But online and offline, Filipinos continue to be inundated with various narratives about the late dictator, with many propping up the “golden era” that was his reign. A look at […]
The fight against lies is an uphill battle. But someone has to do it. As the Marcos family and their supporters ramp up the propagation of myths that distort history, scholars from the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman are using the results of their search for truth and sharing it with the public. Joel […]
Three years after operations began, NFC employees were scrounging around the plant premises for pieces of junk copper wires and other scrap metals to generate some cash to pay a part of their salary while their top people were coming and going in chartered planes.
In my column last Monday on the last 24 hours of the Marcoses in Malacañang on Feb. 25, 1986, I shared the narration of the late colonel Arturo C. Aruiza, aide-de-camp of the late president Ferdinand Marcos Sr., in his book “From Malacañang to Makiki” about their problem when the heavily medicated chief executive could […]
I’m re-reading the book “Ferdinand E. Marcos, Malacañang to Makiki” by Col. Arturo C. Aruiza, who served as aide-de-camp and confidant of the late president for 21 years until the latter’s death in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1989.