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It is difficult to gloss over the record of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, a man with film-star looks who manipulated the political machine, plundered the state to the tune of US$10 billion, and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of his opponents and the torture of tens of thousands more. His wife, Imelda, with her shoe collection — not to mention 888 handbags, 71 pairs of sunglasses and 65 parasols — became a byword for autocratic excess. Yet, less than four decades after the elder Marcos was forced to flee Manila in a US Air Force plane, his son

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Filipinos look ready to make the son of dictator Ferdinand Marcos their new leader, a result made possible by democratic failures, manipulated memories and Rodrigo Duterte.

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“Remember this night, do not ever forget,” then-Fiscal (Prosecutor) Rodrigo Duterte told daughter Sara, aged 7, and son Paolo, 10, on Feb. 25, 1986.