How Duterte enabled the return of the Marcoses
How Duterte enabled the return of the Marcoses
Graphic by Dominic Gutoman
From 1992 to 2002, the Marcos family was acquitted of seven separate counts of graft charges. In the past five years, however, five graft cases against the Marcoses were dismissed. And though Imelda Marcos, the wife of the late dictator who held several government offices during their two-decade rule, was convicted of seven counts of graft cases under the Duterte administration, she remains scot-free.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and DOMINIC GUTOMAN
Additional research from Arneth Asiddao
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — Five years ago today, the late dictator was given a hero’s burial – a fulfillment of an election promise that President Rodrigo Duterte made when he was still running for the country’s highest post. The president claimed it would erase people’s hatred.
For human rights groups, it did not.
Instead, the move sealed the alliance between the two political families as early as 2016, said the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law (CARMMA). In next year’s elections, the son and namesake of the late dictator, Marcos Jr. is bidding for his family’s return to Malacañang, along with Davao City mayor and the president’s daughter Sara Duterte as his vice president.
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