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Philippines' Marcos Scion Coasting Toward Presidency

The question is why

Our Correspondent
Jan 28, 2022
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On February 26, 1986, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and 90 members of his entourage including his wife Imelda and his children famously boarded a US Air Force C-141 transport, fleeing the country for Hawaii with well over a million people on the streets of Manila demanding their ouster.

Among those children was Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., no…

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