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Can Imelda Erase History Again?

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Nov 17, 2018
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The unobtrusive shoe museum in the suburbs of Manila has on its second floor a showcase of the shoes Imelda Marcos wore when she was the Philippines’ First Lady, traipsing around the globe. There is nothing that says what her shoes stood for.

The wife of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos has been a caricature of a powerful woman driven to extravagance a…

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