VERA Files
Cracks in the Marcos political machine started to show in the 1984 Batasan election. And the dictator’s last campaign ended in a popular revolt that forced him, his family, and his cabal into exile.
Not even the PR firm with some of the best access to the gates of power in Washington could save Marcos after his own military and the U.S. turned against him in the final days of his dictatorship.
A creation myth in Philippine folklore, the Marcoses co-opted the Malakas at Maganda myth in the 1970s and anointed themselves as “the strong one” and “ the beautiful one” under “the new society.”
Sinabi ni Sen. Imee Marcos na ang kanyang ama, ang dating pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Sr., ay ginawaran ng tatlong klase ng military decorations mula sa gobyerno ng United States (U.S.) para sa kanyang military service noong World War II. Hindi ito totoo.
There is no official U.S. government record supporting the claim about Marcos receiving medals from the U.S. Armed Forces. Claims about such military decorations are fake, according to a 2016 report by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, the UP Third World Studies Center, and a story by The Washington Post.
It never made such a statement.
This needs context. The decades-old video showed Marcos making remarks about the country’s mutual defense agreement with the U.S.
The Collection of Jane Ryan and William Saunders: Jewelry in Augmented Reality by Pio Abad (b.1983, Manila) and jewelry designer Frances Wadsworth Jones is the inaugural exhibit of 21AM, the new digital museum of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
The video is called a “cheap fake,” or a low-quality version of deepfakes, which are digitally altered videos or images to show people in situations that never occurred.
Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator, loved writing diary entries.