In his insightful piece in Time Magazine on the election as president of Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the ousted dictator, scholar Jonathan Ong said: “To fight back, progressive leaders should advance their own counter-narrative and persuasive vision. But first, they must acknowledge their failure to listen.”
The British Broadcasting Corporation, in a 2014 reportage, said that a group of artworks were seized from Imelda Marcos by order of the court. Among these was a painting that art experts and connoisseurs worldwide recognize as Pablo Picasso’s Femme Couchée VI (Reclining Woman).
Peddling the lies about deuterium have served the purpose of the Marcos family which has been clawing their way back into power over the last three decades.
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.”
A statement made 10 years ago by singer-actress Sharon Cuneta about former first lady Imelda Marcos was revived and twisted to make it look like she is supporting the Marcos family in this year’s elections.
The eight-minute clip tackled only one case.
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 Marcoses lost several court cases before the Supreme Court and the Sandiganbayan.
When I was a college student sometime in the late 70s, my sister’s family invited me to watch the first-ever concert in the Philippines of hitmaker Dionne Warwick.
It claimed, among other things that the money deposited by the Marcoses did not come from ill-gotten wealth.
