Does Marcos Win Set Stage for Philippines Return to Bad Old Days?
The comeback of the Marcos name is an embarrassment for a nation that had thoroughly rejected the elder Marcos for his record of pervasive, profligate corruption on top of harsh dictatorship.
MANILA — The saga of the Marcos dynasty has turned 360 degrees since I heard the helicopters flying the family out of Malacañang Palace in February 1986, in the closing act of what everyone called “the People Power Revolution.”
More than 35 years later, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., son of the late president, is now set to reconquer the palace — presumably with his mother, the widow Imelda, she of the 1,800 shoes and hundreds of bras and girdles, bags full of jewelry, and $10 billion or so tucked away in Swiss bank accounts.
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