President Ferdinand Marcos ... crony capitalism and dictatorship. In 1972, he declared martial law: Constitutional rights were suspended, the legislature was closed and Marcos held on to power ...

A half-century since former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos ushered in almost a decade of martial law, justice remains elusive for some victims of human rights abuses. Now that the dictator ...

Boston-based reporter Philip Marcelo used his family’s harrowing experiences with the regime of Ferdinand Marcos as the hook for a deeply reported first-person essay examining how the Filipino ...

MANILA, Sept 17 (AP): Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said it’s wrong to describe his late father as a dictator and that his brutal martial law rule in the 1970s was not meant to ...

MANILA--Human rights groups asked the Philippine Commission on Elections to disqualify the son and namesake of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos from running for president in next year’s elections ...