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.
Sen. Imee Marcos wrongly claimed that her father, former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr., was awarded three types of military decorations from the U.S. government for his military service during the Second World War.
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.
As the second year of COVID-19 comes to a close, we Filipinos are learning to accept the reality that there is more than just death and taxes that are inevitable in life. In the Philippines, at least.
