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Balikbayan Boxes
99% Invisible
The Story of Ferdinand Marcos
President McKinley's project of benevolent assimilation had a bigger objective beyond just westernizing Filipinos. The US needed farm workers and turned to colonized subjects as in a labor supply. By the 1960s, nearly half of the country lived in poverty. Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was elected president but his administration became a notorious kleptocracy.
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