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‘Bongbong’ Marcos: How a dictator’s son swept to power

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Emelda Marcos, a Former Beauty Queen, and First Lady

Emelda marcos was a former beauty queen, and as first lady, she was famed for her lavish life. In 19 75, with most of their opponents in jail, emelde marcos entered politics herself as a governor,. Later also as m p, appointed by her husband. Ou cannot understand e philippine politics. My wife was elected. It's just a matter of helping outso it was really a marriage of extreme decadence and corruption with brutal ambitions and dictatorship. If we had been ticked off back then, perhaps she would have been famous head of cardasia.

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