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The Duterte-Marcos Connection

By Miguel Paolo P. Reyes | Sep 29, 2019 9:10 PM

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?

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The 1993 secret deal: what the Marcoses wanted in exchange for their ill-gotten wealth

By VERA FILES | Sep 28, 2017 5:08 PM

Duterte wants a compromise deal with the Marcoses. But if history were any indication, getting a deal is not going to be easy.

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Scammers sell Marcos ‘legacy’ to poor Pinoys

By Joel F. Ariate Jr. | Sep 25, 2017 11:23 AM

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.’

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Reparations for over 2,000 more martial law victims underway

By Maria Feona Imperial | Sep 23, 2017 5:14 PM

A new list of victims eligible for compensation from the state is now available.

Human rights, Martial Law

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The sins of martial law, in tranches

By VERA Files | Sep 23, 2017 8:33 AM

Three facts on the monumental challenges the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board faces.

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File No. 60: Debunking the Marcos war myth

By JOEL F. ARIATE JR. and MIGUEL PAOLO P. REYES | Jul 04, 2016 10:05 PM

FOR Ferdinand Marcos, failing to gain official recognition for Maharlika and subsequent war claims did not seem to matter. By 1947, he was already an economic advisor to President Manuel Roxas. By 1949, he was representative of the second district of Ilocos Norte.

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File No. 60: A family affair

By JOEL F. ARIATE and MIGUEL PAOLO P. REYES | Jul 03, 2016 11:25 PM

(Second of three parts) WHAT is striking about File No. 60 is the number of key Ang Mga Maharlika officers who were relatives of Marcos.

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File No. 60: Marcos’ invented heroism

By JOEL F. ARIATE JR. and MIGUEL PAOLO P. REYES | Jul 02, 2016 11:24 PM

THE U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C. is home to the Philippine Archives Collection. Within that collection is File No. 60, which documents Ferdinand E. Marcos’s claim of being a guerilla leader and founder of a guerilla unit called “Ang Manga Maharlika” with thousands of men in its roster from 1942 to 1945 in Northern Luzon. Marcos himself later changed it to “Ang Mga Maharlika.”

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PCGG to probe Marcos’ secret wealth in Australia

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS | Apr 05, 2011 11:22 AM

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.

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