Marcos nephew Michael Keon poised to unseat Fariñas as Laoag mayor

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 16:36:24 +0000

Keon poised to unseat Fariñas as Laoag mayor

Laoag mayoral candidate Michael Marcos Keon was seen unseating reelectionist Mayor Chevylle Fariñas in the midterm elections.

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Duterte wrong in saying no proof of Marcos hidden wealth – Colmenares

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:25:02 +0000

Duterte wrong in saying no proof of Marcos hidden wealth – Colmenares

Senatorial candidate Neri Colmenares, chair of the Bayan Muna party-list group, slammed on Wednesday night President Rodrigo Duterte for saying there was no proof that Ferdinand Marcos amassed ill-gotten wealth during his two-decade reign as president.

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A walk to remember: UP organizes Commune Tour

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:06:36 +0000

A walk to remember: UP organizes Commune Tour

Fifteen years before a sweeping euphoria coursed through Edsa in 1986, ushering in the tidal wave of democracy, a very different kind of protest had caused a seismic stir.

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We seem to be making U-turn back to martial law era — Aquino

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 14:21:55 +0000

We seem to be making U-turn back to martial law era — Aquino

MANILA, Philippines — The administration of President Rodrigo Duterte is taking a turn towards the martial law era of former President Ferdinand Marcos, according to another former president who lived through the late strongman’s reign. Former President Benigno Aquino III, whose family has been long identified as political rivals of the Marcoses, said on Saturday […]

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‘Incorrigible rebel’ lambastes ‘bloodthirsty maniac’

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 21:36:23 +0000

As the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) marked its 50th anniversary on Wednesday

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WHAT WENT BEFORE: Coconut levy imposed by Marcos

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:20:43 +0000

The coconut levy was a tax imposed by President Ferdinand Marcos on the produce of coconut farmers between 1973 and 1982, supposedly to develop the coconut industry.

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Imelda Marcos on former president: ‘I miss him, I think PH misses him too’

FORMER First Lady Imelda R. Marcos admitted on Thursday that she “misses” the late president Ferdinand Marcos and thinks the country does too. “All the more, I miss him, I…READ MORE

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AFP: Reds recruiting in 18 schools for oust-Duterte plot

A senior military officer on Wednesday warned that communist rebels were recruiting students from some of the country’s top universities to join a plot to oust President Rodrigo Duterte so they could establish a dictatorship similar to the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia that killed millions of its own people.

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