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The 20-year Marcos presidency was not a golden age.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte and Imelda tell contradicting stories about Marcos gold
The Marcos gold – ill-gotten after all?
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Maaari bang pahabain ni Duterte ang kanyang termino bilang pangulo?
Sa ilalim ng kasalukuyang konstitusyon, hindi.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Can Duterte extend his term as president?
Communications Assistant Secretary Margaux “Mocha” Uson hopes he will.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos copycat or not?
President Rodrigo Duterte’s string of inconsistent statements about the late president Ferdinand Marcos and martial law has kept the public guessing whether he can or will do a Marcos or not.
VERA FILES YEARENDER: Despite Marcos burial at LNMB, facts about his fake heroism remain
It could have been the year a Marcos scion almost got elected the second highest official of the land. Instead, 2016 proved it had more in store for the family of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
Marcos burial a ‘calculated risk’ — lawyer
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AS protests rage over the Marcos burial, a human rights lawyer and anti-Martial law advocate said any attempt to overturn the Supreme Court ruling would have slim chance of succeeding. In burying the remains of former president Ferdinand Marcos pending the finality of the SC decision, the Marcos family banked on a
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte wants forgiveness after Marcos burial?
AS THE surprise burial of dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Nov. 18 triggered massive protests on the streets, President Rodrigo Duterte sought to unify Filipinos. Upon arriving in Lima, Peru for the 24th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders’ Meeting, he said in a statement: “I would like to pray
Marcos burial: A day of celebration and outrage
Text by MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AND AVIGAIL OLARTE Video by LUCILLE SODIPE CLAD in white shirts and red bandanas bearing the famous peace sign, loyalists of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos clutched the shut gates of the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Nov. 18, the day of the burial. They wanted to be let in
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos’ sins not yet proven in court?
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said he won’t take his word back on allowing the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Amid protests and calls for him to reconsider, the president said the sins of Marcos have yet to be proven. He made the statement as he left for his
