THE KINGMAKER - Ferdinand Marcos was the most powerful man ever to

rule the Philippines.

Manila 2014 His stature among world leaders brought him credibility
at home.
Imelda Marcos “We love your adherence to democratic principle and
First Lady of the Philippines to the democratic processes.”
1965-1986 The Marcos family appeared to be living the Filipino
equivalent of Camelot.
“It's Imelda! Please give to us." - KIDS - She made it known that she would one day be more
“Child, child, child." - Assistant than the average first lady.
*/Imelda gives 50 peso bills - Marcos' wife, Imelda, is seen by many as the real
“Me, too! Me, too!” - KIDS power behind her husband's regime.
“Those who got money should leave now.” - Guard - Imelda embraced fame with a passion, the first lady in
“We are about to go. The light is turning green.” - a political dynasty that ruled
Assistant as if the Philippines were a personal treasure.
The children first! The children first! - Assistant But for all that, friends say Imelda is a deeply
Just the children. - Imelda committed politician who believes
We are going now. - Assistant she is closely associated with her people's destiny.
[Go, go, go, go, go. Go now.]
IMELDA
IMELDA My dream for my country is to regain paradise for all,
When I see Manila, I feel so depressed and sad. This and everything that was beautiful,
was a little paradise. that would make people happy, would be there.
Before, during my time, there were no beggars. But I don't just dream. I want to give birth to it. I want
I had a place for them. to make it real.
This is the palace.
Malacañang Presidential Palace PHILIPPINE CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER
I miss the clout of being First Lady. Hello, hello, hello, hello,
Not exactly the palace, because it was not really a very hello, hello, hello.
comfortable place to live in, MaryAnn Bunyi, head executive assistant.
but I miss the clout, wherein, um… you can do so much. - Hello, hello.
- Good afternoon, ma'am.
After 30 years, Marcos is still not buried.
FERDINAND E. MARCOS This is one of your very good projects which has been
1917-1989 here for 34 years.
He’s lying state in Ilocos, near our mansion. Center for cancer patients.
I always visit him when I’m there. Kids with cancer.

Etta Rosales IMELDA: Oh, my gosh. How are you?

Former Congresswoman Shirley?
She's using the body for political purposes, because her Give me some money to give away.
big dream is to Candy for the kids.
restore the greatness of the Marcos family, */gives 1000 peso bill
and it can only be done if you give him a hero's burial. - Thank you. (salamat po, Madam)
And of course, outside of that, getting one of the Thank you.
children to run for the presidency. Let's go here.
The main goal of Imelda Marcos is to vindicate the
family's honor, the family's name, I'm really so shocked because this was like a playhouse,
except that the Filipino nation will never allow for that. and there was music
and there was… beauty everywhere, where children
I, Ferdinand Edralin Marcos... could play.
I'm so disappointed. Now…
IMELDA This government has no soul, has no heart.
My husband, President Marcos, became president at
the height of the Cold War. IMELDA
Is my makeup okay? Can you check? Go check.
1965 Sit down?
How about my tummy? It doesn’t look big?
“It’s visible, but it is not obvious.”
- And look straight at me, at my camera.
I look at you?
- Look at me.
*/camera click
Well, I had a beautiful and very happy childhood until I
was eight years old,
but when I lost my mother, it seemed like I lost
everything.
Imelda, 3, and her mother
And being orphaned from my mother and left with
nothing,
I was always looking for someone to love me.
This created my character.
I grew up in a province.
When there was this Miss Universe contest,
I went to Manila, and they made me Miss Manila.
And that's how Marcos became aware there was an
Imelda in Manila.
When I met Ferdinand Marcos, he was a congressman.
In the first 20 minutes, he proposed marriage.
I realized maybe this is the love, the mothering that I'm
waiting for.
So in 11 days, we got married.
I was lucky to have a husband and a mother, too.
Mary Yturria
Imelda’s Friend
He was brilliant beyond all imagining, and she was
drop-dead gorgeous.
They have style with a capital S.
IMELDA
Marcos bought this house in 1946.
This is where he brought me when we got married.
Marcos Family Home, Manila
After all this shoe thing about Imelda, uh, having so
many shoes,
so people will give/gift me things like this.
So you see, the shoes became a joke.
This is Ferdinand Marcos in some of the campaigns.
I was of help to him because our family
happens to be strategically on the other side of the
Philippines.
My family comes from the south, and he comes from
the north.
And so it was a good combination,
and I could campaign, and I would sing too.
[singing in native language]
In the beginning, I was having a hard time
because here in this house, there were always plenty of
people,
and I was not used to that. Everything became so
public.
I had to cut ribbons. I had to do this. I had to do that.
It came to a point that I-I could not take politics, really.
Psychiatric Hospital
And I was brought to the hospital in New York
because I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
And the doctor said, "There's nothing wrong with her.
She does not like politics, only."
Then Marcos answered, "If that's the case, right now, I
quit politics."
When I heard that, and I knew he wanted to be
president
so that he could maximize his wealth and talent,
then I said to myself, "Shame on you, Imelda.
Here is the one man who's going to give up everything
for you."
I had to get a psychologist to say how lucky I am
that I am honored to cut ribbons,
how lucky I am that I'm invited here,
how lucky I am that people come to my house,
how lucky I am...
Eventually I believed it, and before I knew it,
I was really lucky and happy.
I was completely different after that.
Beth Day Romulo
Journalist
Widow of Marcos’ Foreign Minister
General Romuo
Imelda very much enjoyed the role of first lady,
and Marcos was afraid to leave the Philippines for fear
there'd be a coup.
So he used Imelda as the surrogate president, and she
loved that.
Emperor Hirohito
Prince Charles
Ronald Reagan
Fidel Castro
Muammar Gaddafi
IMELDA
I did not want to read books about the leaders that I
was going to meet,
because I had my own eyes. I had my own ears and
senses.
Many leaders were called monsters. I did not find they
were very mean.
They were generous. They were kind.
And if I did not know what was the problem,
I would ask Chairman Mao, "What's your problem?"
It's the same with Saddam Hussein, "What's your
problem?"
I can really say that there was no mission at the height
of the Cold War that, uh, I failed.
*/shows pictures
Here is Russia. (*/frames fall down, glass breaks)
Here. Here is Russia with Burgurni there
And here is Mrs. Mao.
This is, uh, President Nixon playing the piano, and I'm
singing there.
He would come and call on me at my suite at Waldorf.
He was very nice and very human, but he was
misunderstood.
There are many things women can do.
Sometimes it helps that you're not taken too seriously.
Henry Kissinger
This is, um, the romantic Ferdinand Marcos.
Every time, uh, I would go abroad,
he would give me a picture and-- of him, and here he
would write,
"I shall bear my loneliness when you are away. To my
eternal love."
I must say that now that I look back at 35 years of
marriage
to Marcos, I had a beautiful married life,
and I don't remember any… bad or ugly… sad, um,
situation.
BETH DAY ROMULO
Marcos had an eye for the ladies, which he didn't give
up
when he married, I might add.
He had a world map, and he picked the farthest places
from Manila he could send his wife and got her out of
the way
so he could carry on his affairs.
And the one that he made a mistake about was this
Dovie Beams,
who-who was an American.
MARY YTURRIA
Disgusting. Very disgusting.
Oh, I'm sure Imelda was heartbroken about that.
I'm sorry that he-he did that.
That-that was… very sad for me.
BETH DAY ROMULO
She had loved Marcos, and it did hurt her that he went
to other women.
I mean, she cried once on the general's shoulder,
and she said, "I give him everything he wants, and still
he cheats on me."
Recording of President Marcos and Dovie Beams
*/Marcos singing gently
“I will kiss you...”
*/Dovie giggles
BETH DAY ROMULO
Oh, yes, there was a tape recorder under the bed. That
was it.
So that's what she held over him.
When she wanted something new, she would say, "I'll
play the tapes again,"
you know, and, uh, he'd give-give in to whatever she
said.
After that, no one would ever stop her from anything.
It was a shame, because her personality changed too.
IMELDA
Knock down the whole thing, there, behind,
and then knock down all the houses there, and the
guesthouse.
Mrs. Marcos wants to expand because progress cannot
wait.
When Marcos became president, the Philippines was
only 22 years after World War II.
Manila was leveled to the ground like Warsaw.
We had no rice. We had no water. We had no light. We
had nothing.
So we had to do it with a meager amount.
And then everyone feels good because they’re doing it
voluntarily.
It’s a motivation, much deeper than when you have a
whip all the time
telling them, “Do this, don’t do this,”
And I cannot stand this whipping all the time.
MARY YTURRIA
The Marcoses were living like kings. No two ways about
it.
They spent money, all right. They did.
BETH DAY ROMULO
Imelda, they used to say, had an edifice complex.
She loved buildings, and I think that probably, in some
ways,
traces back to her background, which was relatively
humble.
She called me one day when she was staying at the
Waldorf in New York:
THE WALDORF ASTORIA
"What do you think of the Crown Building?" I said, "You
know, it's beautiful.
You know, 57th and Fifth and all that. And it's a lovely
building."
She said, "I'm gonna buy it," you know.
And then she bought… four more.
IMELDA
And then we have another $100 million to play around
with.
BETH DAY ROMULO
She was a spontaneous person for acquisitions.
If she saw something she liked, she'd take it.
Like buying out jewelry stores in Paris. And shipping
animals from Africa.
We were on safari in Kenya,
and Imelda was fascinated with the wild animals. Grant’s Gazelles - -

IMELDA 1181 Penafrancia,

I got so envious that we didn't have those. Paco, Manila.

BETH DAY ROMULO Herewith a list of alll the animals that we shipped
So she ordered them. You know, like you buy a dress in onboard the “DON SALVADOR.”
Paris,
you bring in animals from Africa. 11 Elands 18 Impalas
12 Waterbucks 11 Grants Gazelles
IMELDA 15 Giraffes 10 Topis
Then I said, "I will complete paradise for the Philippines, 15 Zebras 12 Bushbucks
because we will also have the animals from Africa
here." We were also able to load 800 bales of lucern hay and
1000 bales of grass hay on to rail.
Tony Parkinson Allowing for some wastage in loading and transit I
WIld Animal Catcher estimate that there will be
There was an American Texas rancher called Frank approximately 550 bales of lucern and 750 bales of
Yturria. grass hay for use after arrival,
He had met the late President Marcos long before he together with about 40 bags of mixed grains. Later I’ll
came president, in 1954. send a detailed list.
The president asked Frank, could they put some
animals on an island? MARY YTURRIA
And they start talking about getting exotic animals in. I have no idea what it cost, but she got her own little
private zoo
Frank Yturria shipped from Africa.
Marcos’ Friend
Well, the new president of Kenya has put an embargo BETH DAY ROMULO
on shipping When Imelda's animals arrived, it was a problem of
any more wild animals out of Kenya. We couldn't do it. where
And the telephone rang, and my wife said, these new guests would go if they were to roam free,
"It's the president of the Philippines calling you." which she insisted.
I said, "Hello, Mr. President," and he said, So they finally settled on this small island
"Frank, I went and talked with President Kenyatta, where they wouldn't run into people.
and he agreed to let me have the animals."
He said, "And by the way, I left a large briefcase on his IMELDA
desk." It was an island that was not inhabited by a group of
He said, "Need I say more?" I said, "No, sir, you don't people
have to say more." or did not have, um, communities there,
except a few that I could, uh, tell them what to do.

TONY PARKINSON Remedios Tradio

The deal was already completed, and we already had Original Calauit Villager
gotten We were forced to leave our homes when they brought
a lot of animals in captivity. the animals.
We'd taken a giraffe, Burchell's zebra, impala, and We were told that the animals and the people cannot
waterbuck. be together.
ANIMAL MALE FEMALE We were afraid of the military.
Impala 5 10 We’re sad, because the animals replaced us.
Bush Buck 3 7
Common Zebra 5 10 In 1946 the Marcoses evicted 254 families from
Water Buck 3 7 Calauit to make room for their safari park.
Topi 3 7
Giraffe 5 10 IMELDA
Eland 3 7 I was always criticized for being excessive, but that is
Columbus Monkey 2 8 mothering.
That is the spirit of mothering. Manila, 2015
You cannot quantify love. [BONGBONG MARCOS
And with my spirit and character of mothering, MARIKINA CITY]
I want to mother not only the Philippines but the world. */crowd cheers
Ma'am, we miss you.
Bongbong MArcos Welcome to Senator Bongbong Marcos in the house.
Age 11 TO REBORN THIS COUNTRY...
When I was younger, uh, my father and mother were STARTED WITH MARCOS,
always terribly busy. WE NEED ANOTHER MARCOS.
They were never home. Bongbong Marcos.
They were always off campaigning TRUE MARCOS LOYALIST.
or doing something terribly important. MARCOS PA RIN :
I really regretted the time that I was away from my Bongbong, president!
parents. Bongbong, president!
But this is the life the politicians have. Bongbong, president!
As far as I'm concerned, the best politician Bongbong, president!
that I've ever seen is my mother. Bongbong, president!
Her politics are very intuitive and natural. Of course, we would also like to acknowledge
Madame Imelda Romualdez Marcos.
IMELDA LET’S SHOUT
I said, "I think I want you to be president one day like BBM 2016
your dad," BBM! BBM! BBM!
and they were very close, especially so he was the only
boy. Cristina Romualdez
Bongbong studied abroad since he was nine years old. Imelda’s Niece
He was in London. He was at Oxford, Wharton. The one will unite all the Filipinos in the whole country.
Our next vice president, Ferdinand “Bongbong”
Sandro Marcos Marcos!
Bongbong’s Son Imee Marcos
He was a little bit of a nerd as a kid, Imelda’s Eldest Daughter
so he was--you know, he wanted to do physics, math,
biology, FERDINAND “BONGBONG” MARCOS
but my grandfather was like, "There's no money in that, The dreams of our children have died.
so switch to politics." Our country has lost its direction.
What happened?
IMELDA Why have we been stuck in the quicksand of poverty?
I told him, "You are needed now." With your help, and for this country
I will lead a revolution in the hearts and minds of
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Filipinos.
Philippine Senator
My mother wanted me to run since I was eight years Juan Ponce Enrile
old, Defense Minister
so that's a given, you know? Under President Marcos
She-she's the one going around and telling everyone,
"Oh, you must help my son like this and like that." Bongbong Marcos
"Mom, we haven't decided yet." Vice Presidential Candidate
"Yeah, yeah, but it's okay. Once you decide, that will be The vice presidency in the Philippines
ready, so..." is something quite different from what it is maybe in
She's so political an animal, really. the United States.
We are voted in, uh, separately.
IMELDA Means that the vice president has their own mandate.
There's pressure for him to run for president. Of course, a vice president's main function
His father was President when he was 47 years old. is to take over, should the president be unable to
But, um… Thinking it over, we-we-we all decided continue.
that it would be best to go vice president Uh, that-that remains.
and then if… God willing, the presidency. But nobody voted any-anyone to just wait
for-for the president or their boss to die.
We-we have to find ways to make yourself useful.
[Leni Robredo! Fight against hunger! (2x)]
It-it was common knowledge that Senator Bongbong
was eyeing the presidency, and people close to him
were-were saying that, um,
he opted to run for the vice presidency instead
because he had better chances of-of winning the vice
presidency
instead of the presidency, but I think, um,
this will only be a stepping-stone
to what he really wants, and that is to be president just
like his father.
MARCOS
The commander in chief is authorized to adopt
all the measures necessary to prevent the success of
the enemy.
- Marcos blamed growing discontent on communist
insurgents.
He jailed dissidents and silenced all political opposition.
FRANK YTURRIA
The Marcos dictatorship had been in power for years,
and the people themselves were starting to get tired of
it.
Plus the fact that the regime had become very corrupt.
Benigno “Ninoy”Aquino Jr.
Opposition Leader
The young feel so disenchanted and frustrated.
They feel that there is no future for them.
Prices are going up. People are lining up in the streets
to buy rice.
People cannot find employment.
The wealthy controls the destiny of our people.
This must give way to meaningful reforms.
Etta Rosales
Former Congresswoman
People loved listening to Aquino, and he spoke
flawlessly.
And we all knew that, uh, if he would run for elections,
he would easily win.
BETH DAY ROMULO
Imelda, I think, had dated him when they were young
and single,
and she thought that Ninoy Aquino would always be
loyal to her,
but he was not,
because he developed a real force against the
Marcoses.
BENIGNO “NINOY”AQUINO JR.
The battle has been joined, and the time has come
for all Filipinos to take sides.
Either you are for the cause of freedom or the curse of
tyranny.
The Aquino Family
“Noynoy” Aquino
Son of Benigno “Ninoy”Aquino Jr.
We were awakened in the middle of the night,
and, um, my father had been arrested.
From becoming the presidential aspirant
to being a detainee of the Marcos regime
was wuite a significant leap.
- Former Senator Benigno Aquino has been jailed on
charges
of subversion.
Aquino's supporters say he was framed
because he is the president's foremost political
opponent.
BENIGNO “NINOY”AQUINO JR.
I was in prison for seven years and seven months.
Everyday they brought me out to exercise.
All of a sudden, I developed a chest pain,
and I told my doctor, "I am very, very weak.
Please bring me to the Philippine Heart Center and get
me an examination."
1980
IMELDA
When Ninoy Aquino was sick and he was in the hospital
PHILIPPINE HEART CENTER FOR ASIA
in the Heart Center, my project,
I can say that I was overly generous to him.
BENIGNO “NINOY”AQUINO JR.
Lo and behold, the beautiful one ascended into my
suite.
She came, and she was really beautiful. She has not
aged.
And she sat down and said… “Oh, my Ninoy,” she said
"I'm sorry to see you like that. Would you like to go to
America?"
Oh, oh. I replied “Sure, Sure!”
“NOYNOY” AQUINO
After three years in America,
My father decided to come home.
Coraźon “Cory” Aquino
Wife of Ninoy Aquino
He felt that he owed it to the Filipino people.
He wanted to have an audience with Marcos
and tried to persuade him to call for clean and orderly
elections.

August 21, 1983
BENIGNO “NINOY”AQUINO JR.
The very fact alone that we can land is victory enough.
Everything after that's a bonus.
I mean, whether they put me back in a plane
and ship me out or bring me to prison, I promised to
return.
I have returned against all odds. So that's good enough
for me.
Imelda: President Marcos at that time, August 21,
Was not only sick, he was dying,
Because there was a rejection of his kidney transplant.
“NOYNOY” AQUINO
President Marcos himself was supposed to
have been unconscious after some transplant
operation.
Some quarters suggested that
It was Mrs. Marcos and Fabian Ver in control at that
point in time.
ETTA ROSALES
So it was Ver, General Ver, and Imelda Marcos
who were, you know, in a way, calling the shots.
*/plane landed on PH
Sure, sure. Thank you.
- I want to kiss him!
BENIGNO “NINOY”AQUINO JR.
You have to be very ready with your hand camera,
because this action can become very fast.
(Yes.) In a matter of three, four minutes, it could be all
over, you know?
And… I may not be able to talk to you again after this.
*/Ninoy ascends to get out of plane
*/gunshots
ETTA ROSALES
That case remains unresolved.
[WHO IS THE KILLER? MARCOS OR IMELDA]
Beth Day Romulo
Journalist
Widow of Marcos’ Foreign Minister
General Romuo
Well, it was never proven, you know, there was a hired
assassin,
but, uh, General Romulo, he was just heartbroken over
that,
because it was such a-a miserable, nasty thing to do.
Of course, he suspected that it was Imelda.
General Carlos Romulo
Marcos’ Foreign Minister
IMELDA
They were saying so, but why would I do that?
He was no threat to me.
In fact, I knew him before I knew Marcos.
And some people, they say that he was courting me.
And, uh--but, um…
I had nothing to do against him
Except that he talked too much, anyway.
“NOYNOY” AQUINO
She believed that there was a threat.
She was prevailing over my father not to come home.
And then you’re going to say that, “I had nothing to do
with it.”
I’m sorry, kind of, absurb concept.
IMELDA
And it's not in my character to even quarrel with
anyone,
how much more kill anyone.
And God knows… I was very kind to him.
ETTA ROSALES
The killing of the late Senator Benigno Aquino
sparked the movement that really brought out the
people in their numbers.
1985
Under pressure from the United States, Marcos called a
snap election.
Cory Aquino
Widow of Ninoy Aquino
Leader of People Power
Recalling once more Ninoy's words, and I quote,
"I will never be able to forgive myself
if I will have to live with the knowledgemthat I could
have done something and I did not do anything."
I hereby affirm my candidacy...
- President Marcos and his wife, Imelda, continue their
hard-hitting campaign, charging that the challenger
shouldn't even be running for the presidency.
CORY AQUINO
I have no experience in cheating, stealing, lying,
or assassinating political opponents.
BETH DAY ROMULO
They couldn't be more opposite. It could be a cartoon.
Magazines: Life Asia Edition, The Sunday Times
Magazine
While Imelda, you know, was ostentatious and
glamorous and into
everything and so fashionable,
and Cory, I doubt she even wore nail polish. You know,
probably not.
But very intelligent and very well educated.
She really knew what she was about.
She'd been through a lot.
- At the end of the day, the popular support
Mrs. Aquino inspired was translated into votes.
CORY AQUINO
I am counting on a landslide to offset any cheating
that Marcos will do.
Citizen
We came here, and we couldn't find our names,
and there's about a thousand peoplemwho are the
same, you know?
- There was always the possibility that Marcos would
use fraud
to beat Mrs. Aquino, despite assurances to the
contrary.
MARCOS
But by and large, it will be a fair, honest, and clean
election.
- But it was obvious that they weren't.
Television crews saw Marcos supporters
transported to and from election rallies
and Marcos votes being bought in exchange for food.
ETTA ROSALES
The people realized that it was rigged,
and even those who were tabulating the elections,
young girls, stood up in protest and got out,
and so the people saw that despite the elections,
Marcos would still insist that he was the winner.
I hereby proclaim Ferdinand E. Marcos as the duly
elected president.
[FRAUD ELECTION
TERRORISM MARCOS PA RIN
YÑIGUEZ SIPSIP]
Cory! Cory! Cory! Cory!
Cory! Cory! Cory!
- Marcos loyalists opened fire, wounding dozens and
killing one.
IMELDA
It was so painful, because Marcos just won the election
over Aquino.
We won by more than one million votes.
- Ferdinand Marcos, after 20 years in power,
laid defiant claim to another six-year term.
MARCOS
There is no way under which I can step down or resign
from the position of president.
BETH DAY ROMULO
You know, when it finally was reduced
to just the Marcos family alone in Malacañan Palace,
and there were people at the gates just being held off
by a security force, and that's when he finally agreed
they ha-they had to leave, and Imelda wanted to leave
too.
*/helicopter sounds
IMELDA
A few days before, there was a big reception
that I had to wear some jewelry.
Just as we were told to get into the helicopter,
I saw a box of diapers from my grandchildren,
so I put this jewelry in this box of diapers.
Diamonds in diapers.
It saved us later to pay the lawyers that cost millions.
- It's just been confirmed that Mr. Marcos has indeed
left,
and there's absolute chaos outside his palace.
*/people climbing the fence
- As it drew near midnight in Manila, the demonstrators
stormed
the gates of the palace to take back what they said was
theirs.
They looted Marcos' property. They rifled his files and
defiled his portraits.
They raided the Marcos' refrigerator.
“This has been stolen from the Filipino people!”
It was a burst of long-pent-up fury spent on a palace
that was the very symbol of the Marcos dictatorship.
-Filipinos were staggered by the opulence
and by Imelda's famous closet.
The designer dresses, some from Rome,
where only days before fleeing,
she placed her last $80,000 order.
- This dress was hand embroidered with silver thread.
Here we see a bulletproof bra.
She left behind 3,000 pairs of shoes.
IMELDA
They found no skeletons but found only beautiful
shoes.
President Cory Aquino
1986-1992
The long agony is over. We are finally free,
and we can be truly proud of the unprecedented way
we achieved our freedom.
IMELDA
It's not true that we flee from our country.
We were kidnapped.
They told us we were going to Paoay, a town in Ilocos,
only to be brought to Hawaii.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1986
And losing your country after being mother
of your country for more than 20 years,
then you became orphan,
it was like losing my mother again.
FRANK YTURRIA
Of course, the United States government
double-crossed Marcos, because there are elements
in the United States that don't like dictators.
Even though the dictators
are our dictators, they don't like 'em.
When I was being considered to be ambassador to the
Philippines
during Ronald Reagan's time, what killed me was that I
told him
that I was all in favor of Marcos remaining.
"But he's a dictator." Yes, he's a dictator,
but I said, "If you don't keep Marcos,
I'm telling you that you're gonna lose all American
military bases
in the Philippines."
What happened?
We lost 'em when Aquino came in.
President Ronald Reagan
Our hearts and hands are with President Aquino
and her new government as they set out to meet
the challenges ahead.
Today the Filipino people celebrate the triumph
of democracy, and the world celebrates with them.
IMELDA
You have many friends, and suddenly
when you are not in power, they don't even know you.
- So far, investigators say they've uncovered
strong evidence of at least $250 million
worth of Marcos real estate in the United States alone.
Investigators are also checking to see
if American money has been stolen
in the hundreds of projects financed all over the
country by U.S. aid.
Juan Frivaldo
Philippine Governor
- Frivaldo says corruption was widespread
in the highway program of his province,
highways built with U.S. aid money. -
Instead of having six to eight inches concrete
on the highways, they would normally do it with two
inches.
- Was Marcos getting any of this money?-
What else can you deduce?
FRANK YTURRIA
Tell me a country that doesn't have corruption,
and don't say the U.S., because we're the worst.
We give money to countries,
and the money is not used for the purpose it was sent
for,
and we know it.
They bought buildings in New York, put them in
Imelda’s name.
Or they put it in some front man’s name.
First she had a beautiful home in, uh, Beverly Hills.
She put it in George Hamilton's name.
And when the Marcos regime fell,
George sold it.
Kept the money.
So you see, everybody's corrupt.
IMELDA
They even filed a case against me.
The United States government against Imelda Marcos.
This is only one case.
Three hundred fifty thousand documents.
I had a house full of documents.
Marcos Family Home, Manila
Can you open the...
- Yes, ma'am.
Open the door.
Here I placed the documents from New York.
[MANILA GAS, LUCIO TAN, SWISS FOUNDATIONS,
MARCOS STATE, GEORGE HAMILTON FILES,
RICO CASE, CRIMINAL CASES, HUMAN RIGHTS CASE]
This is only one case against Mrs. Marcos in the trial of
the century.
And here what we supposedly had stolen-- banks, the
buildings.
[GOLDEN BUDDHA CASE, MARCOS FOUNDATION
And a stolen golden Buddha, which was ridiculous.
I did not steal a golden Buddha.
- Ferdinand Marcos, the former president, died
Thursday in Hawaii.
IMELDA
My husband was dead. I did not know where to live.
- Imelda Marcos is wearing black for her racketeering
trial.-
You're facing the mightiest sword of justice of the
world,
and you're alone, widowed, and homeless and
countryless and penniless.
The jail would have been a welcome thing.
It would be free board and lodging.
Anyway, on my birthday, July 2, 1990, not guilty on all
counts.
- Her lawyers told the jury even though Imelda Marcos
was a world-class spender,
that was not a crime, that however Ferdinand Marcos
made the money was his business, not hers.-
I won it because of the truth.
In spite of all that, Cory says...
"She cannot come back home." */points the newspaper
BONGBONG MARCOS
There was an undercurrent of-of-of this,
"How do we-how do we get home?"
We-we all basically escaped, the kids, from the States.
We weren't allowed to leave, but we left anyway.
I remember very well buying the ticket,
and I said, "I can't come home in coach."
You know, I said-- called up a friend; I said,
"Can you--I can't-- I don't have any money
to buy a first-class ticket.
Buy me a first-class--
I can't come home--
I've always been in first class.
It's just too embarrassing."
- Her son, Bongbong, staged his own triumphant return
last week.-
And while I was still at the airport,
I immediately phoned my mother,
who scolded me and said, "What are you doing there?"
I'll never forget, but I said, "Mom, come home.
It's fine. It's safe. We're gonna be all right."
And a couple of weeks later,
she was home.
IMELDA
It was God's plan to… make me born in the Philippines.
Nobody can stop me.
- Surrounded by her bodyguards and supporters,
Imelda Marcos passed through nearly hysterical crowds
toward the suburban Manila courthouse,
ready to face corruption charges
that could put her in prison for more than 100 years.
The former first lady surrendered to authorities
in order to be granted immediate bail.
One of her lawyers brought the bail money in cash,
rolled up in a Mister Donut napkin.
A woman who had traveled in the world's most
powerful circles
for more than two decades was fingerprinted and
released,
awaiting her day in court on more than 70 civil and
criminal charges-
Andy Bautista
Chair of the Presidential Commission on Good
Government (PCGG)
2010-2015
The Marcoses during their, um, tenure in power,
plundered a lot
of the nation's wealth, $5 billion to $10 billion in 1986.
They felt that Philippine government funds
belonged to them because they were the leaders
of the country at that time.
BONGBONG MARCOS
When I first arrived back home, being a Marcos was an
issue.
It was a political issue.
IMELDA
It really...it hurt us a lot,
especially media-wise, because the problem
with the media is, the gun can kill you
only up to the grave, but the media can kill you
beyond the grave into infinity.
-While we are allowing the return of Imelda Marcos,
the ban on the return of the remains
of Ferdinand Marcos will continue.-
BONGBONG MARCOS
We announced that we were bringing him back, and…
They wouldn’t let us land in Manila,
So we landed him in Ilocos Norte.
IMELDA
Cory Aquino disallowed Marcos to be buried.
The Aquinos have been very unjust, inhuman
to the Marcoses, not only to the living but also to the
dead.
“NOYNOY” AQUINO
Some people want to say that it’s just a fight
Between us and the Marcoses.
No, no.
The fight is, there has to be something that is right
And there is something that is wrong.
President Noynoy Aquino
2010-2016
IMELDA
No less than the son of Cory is president now.
Between the mother and the son,
you cannot tell who's worse.
“NOYNOY” AQUINO
One of my mother’s first actions
was to create the Presidential Commission on Good That's the Filipino in me.
Government. It's not okay for them to flaunt...
Which I understand is being seen as a model for other flaunt what they stole.
countries
Trying to recover the ill-gotten wealth by their own IMELDA
despots. When I came back from abroad,
in spite of all the bad publicity...
ANDY BAUTISTA [Imelda! Imelda!]
The commission was created in 1986 The people never stopped saying
to track down and repatriate plundered wealth. “Run for office! Run for office!”
So far, we've been able to remit back $4 billion, “You know how to take care of people.”
but I also hasten to add that many of these assets “You know how to love.”
also have...you know, have really appreciated in terms The first time I ran for Congress, I won.
of value.
Beth Day Romulo
IMELDA Widow of Marcos’ Foreign Minister
Oh, they sequestered everything. General Romuo
All the jewelry that they would find, That is something that surprises Americans,
all the valuables that they would encounter, and all I can think of, the Filipinos are very forgiving
all the beautiful things. people.
- Let’s just remove this one. Shall we remove this one, Nobody said, "You can't do it."
Ma’am? She came back.
Make it face this way.
The PCGG just would confiscate anything they wanted Ilocos Norte
to get Ferdinand Marcos’ Home Province
that they felt was stolen.
Even this house, only a few months ago, (Imelda’s Birthday Party)
was, um, being auctioned off. IMELDA
We cannot stay really here, because we do not know - Happy birthday, ma'am.
when we will be kicked out. Thank you.
Look, I am no longer first lady. You want a taste of my shoes?
I do not-- I'm not even allowed I was only eight years old when I became orphan.
to go around the world anymore. And when you lose your money-- your-your mother,
They prohibit me. you lose everything.
Everything--I can-- - You still have plans of running?
I cannot even have-- Or are you going to anoint any of your children to do
I have money in 170 banks and deposits of assets. the Marcos work for you?- (Dorris Begornia)
I cannot even have them. Well, I go on and on about Bongbong, and he-he's my
And I, even at this stage, even at my age, only son.
I can go around the world and bring world peace. - So we will be seeing another Marcos in Malacañang?-
I befriended all of them. Being president is a… destiny.
Gaddhafi was a friend.
Um, Saddam Hussein. Leyte, 2016
Mister, um... Imelda’s Home Province
Mao Tse-tung. (Bongbong campaign rally)
I just gave respect to him. IMELDA
He took my hand and kissed it. We had the best leader when Marcos reigned.
In five minutes, he said, Now, I have my son Bongbong Marcos.
"Mrs. Marcos, you started the end of the Cold War." I am here campaigning, even if I feel like a teenager at
In five minutes--Mao! 86.
So--and who is Imelda? I am here as a daughter of Leyte.
That’s why, when I became First Lady,
May Rodriguez I told my husband Marcos
Activist To build the San Juanico Bridge between Leyte and
I don't have an answer for why we allow Imelda Samar.
to even open her mouth. Good thing I was able to catch Marcos as my husband.
I'd be--I'd be...okay for them to return.
ETTA ROSALES - red FROILAN SARIEGO
The San Juanico Bridge is that beautiful bridge. This project started with big money.
That is called the "Bridge of Love" Little by little… our budget became nil.
as a gift of President Marcos to his beautiful wife, We have no vetirinarian here.
Imelda. The name of this giraffe is Athena.
She has screwworm fly.
San Juanico Bridge The maggots screw in the flesh.
IMELDA We have no medicine that could easily kill this larva or
My projects, I did not make them only good and right. maggots.
It had to be beautiful.
And beauty's really the extravagance of love. TONY PARKINSON
The mystery is, to me, that Calauit
Remedios Tradio has lasted so long, 37 years, and it's still surviving today.
Original Caluit Villager
President Marcos…he chose the animals, not us.
We are just very thankful that President Cory Aquino IMELDA
ousted President Marcos. When I came back after our exile,
I went back to Calauit to see how it was,
Tony Parkinson and I was really so depressed and shocked to see what
Wild Animal Catcher had happened.
Caluit Project There was hardly anything left.
Once we left, I think then it started to fall to pieces,
as often happens with a change in government, FROILAN SARIEGO
and all the people poured back onto the island, I've been here for almost 40 years.
and nobody's tried to stop them. When Mrs. Marcos returned home to the Philippines,
They couldn't. She never came back here to Calauit Island.

REMEDIOS TRADIO TONY PARKINSON

It’s so difficult. They need qualified people there to stop inbreeding.
It’s difficult for us to live with the animals. The present group have come from a very small gene
The villagers get angry at the zebra, because the zebra pool.
eats all the crops. There's been no effort made to separate father
The zebra destroyed this fence. from mating with daughter.
The son grows up and breeds with his mother.
TONY PARKINSON An animal doesn't know the difference.
So you cannot say to a giraffe, Inbreeding's already happened. It's there.
"Don't wander in there. That's somebody's garden." The damage has been done.
The locals see them, they get upset I've heard that some of the giraffe have got shortened
'cause that's their livelihood, necks.
so they shoot them or kill them. That's a physical one you see,
but the ones that do the harm is the problems you
REMEDIOS TRADIO cannot see.
We wish the animals would go back to where they It's probably too late.
came from.
Ilocos Norte
Froilan Sariego Marcos’ Home Province
Caluit Gatekeeper since 1976 - Our vice president, president.
The Marcos regime didn’t bring any documents saying
how to handle these animals. Imee Marcos
Unlike, if you buy a television, there is a manual for how Governor
to operate. Ilocos Norte
We're really nostalgic today.
IMELDA Today we remember my dad,
For anything to grow, even animals, they need love. who is clearly with us with this breezy weather.
That's why you need a mother in a government, Once again, we come to you to ask for your support,
because a mother makes everything whole. your affection, and your continued loyalty
that my family has enjoyed through all these decades.
All the municipalities are joining hands [RETURN WHAT YOU STOLE!
to support Bongbong for vice president 2016. No vote to Martial Law! Don’t vote for Bongbong!]
Never again! Never again!
BONGBONG MARCOS Never again martial law!
Thank you so much for that very spirited speech, elder
sister, thank you. 1972
I would like to greet, of course, our congresswoman MARCOS
from the second district, my mother, Congresswoman As of the 21st of this month, I signed proclamation
Imelda. number 1081,
We who have enjoyed a time when the Philippines placing the entire Philippines
was seen as a bright light in the community of nations, under martial law.
when we ourselves were proud to be Filipinos,
we enjoyed that time. -The situation in the Philippines
Unfortunately that time has passed. is obscured by rigid news censorship
It's time to return to that moment in time. imposed when President Marcos
put the country under martial law last Friday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fourteen of Manila's 15 newspapers have been closed.
Congresswoman Imelda Marcos Marcos has said he is trying to save his country from
Ilocos Norte communism.
So far, Bongbong seems to be saying the right things,
don’t you think? ETTA ROSALES
Martin Romualdez Ferdinand Marcos mobilized the military
Imelda’s Nephew and the police in order to perpetuate himself in power.
Congressman
- Yes, well, that's… that's-that's very important, getting IMELDA
the right message across. Martial law, that was the best years of Marcos
What is your thinking as for his chances? because that was when he was able to give
- We have to see. We have to see. Time will only tell. the Philippines sovereignty, freedom, justice, human
rights.
Okay, Mom! Wish me luck.
Pete Lacaba
[Bongbong! Journalist
Bongbong! Bongbong! Bongbong!] Martial law was declared.
A lot of journalists who were, uh, critical of the
BONGBONG MARCOS government
Campaigns, in fact, are fun. had been arrested,
Except for the candidate. but since I eluded the arresting unit,
Dealing with the public is a chore. I went underground.
The candidate's stressed out all the way.
I'm often asked by members of the media, MAY RODRIGUEZ
"Is it an advantage or a disadvantage I was going to a secret house.
to be born a Marcos in this day and age in politics?" When the door was opened, uh,
First of all, my name is Ferdinand Marcos. three strange men were there, and they pulled me in.
I mean, how are you going to separate? They made me sit and-and, uh, tied my hands,
And I'm his son. um, blindfolded me, and started, uh, hours of
Um, there's no getting away from that. questioning.
So, um, no, I have no reason or desire to separate
myself. ETTA ROSALES - loretta p. rosales 4 aug 76
What it is, it is. I was a teacher. One thing led to another. I got involved.
To meet as five people was enough to arrest you
Leni Robredo and detain you and accuse you of subversion.
Vice Presidential Candidate
It's difficult and it's also scary PETE LACABA
in the sense that if-if these people We were taken to… an open-air barracks for the
are brought to power again, there's a very big chance enlisted men.
that the sins of the past will be committed again in the Uh, they'd hit me in the chest. They, uh, made me, uh,
future. squat,
and while I was squatting, they'd hit my shins And some of those who tortured me
with a bamboo handle. were actually students of mine
who were planted in the schools to spy on us.
ETTA ROSALES
The electric shocks, they-they were really painful, PETE LACABA
'cause they'd, you know, increase the voltage My brother, when I was in prison,
every time you lied to them. decided that he would join the resistance.
At some point, the military command--
PETE LACABA the commander of the unit that, uh, caught them
They made me do what they called, uh, decided, "Ah, let's not bring them to the camp
the San Juanico Bridge. anymore.
They made me lie down between two beds Get rid--kill them."
with my head on one bed and my feet on the other He was 27 at the time.
and my body hanging in the air. They were not officially executed.
I would fall from the pull of gravity. That-that's just it.
Then they would get me to go up again, That-that's why it's called extrajudicial executions,
To lie down on air again, to do the San Juanico again. extrajudicial killings.
And, uh, there's the rain.
ETTA ROSALES
Isn't it cynical? ETTA ROSALES
The Bridge of Love for one set of people My body was traumatized.
becomes a method of torture for another set of people, I had no control over the tremors.
the so-called enemies of the state. The agents, they came to me,
and they said, "Ma'am, can we continue
MAY RODRIGUEZ with the history classes?"
I was really scared that they were going to rape me. So what did I do?
They made me lie down. I taught them. I helped them.
So they started to take the panties out. Helped me recover.
I don't know who, because it--I was blindfolded. 'Cause to them...
I only knew that all my-- both my arms and my legs In Filipino, they'd say...
were being held down. (“walang perosnalan, trabaho lang yan.”)
And someone started "Nothing personal. This is just work."
running his hands all over my body.
Then some finger went in. MAY RODRIGUEZ
And they said... I felt proud about myself.
"You probably have, uh, small letters hidden inside." I stood up to them.
By then, I wasn't fighting. I did not give away
I was numb. I was ready for it. any other.
It sort of like, um… washed away,
ETTA ROSALES washed away the-the pain,
I was burned with, um, wax candle. because I bought their safety.
I was molested, sexually molested by agents of the
state. Martial law lasted 8 years.
Marcos dissolved Congress and seized control of the
MAY RODRIGUEZ courts.
So the fingers were getting in and out and in,
and then there was a radio call. 70,000 people were incarcerated,
The radio call said, "Bring the girl in." 35,000 were tortured,
No hands were holding me anymore, 3,200 killed.
but I couldn't get up.
It wasn't from the beating. PILIPINAS DEBATE 2016 - UST, Manila
It was from the… uh... RULES OF THE VP DEBATE
disillusionment that people, - Senator Bongbong Marcos, your opening statement,
people as in persons, please, sir.
can actually do these things to another. What will define your leadership as Vice President of
the Philippines?
ETTA ROSALES
First of all, thank you for this chance to speak to the
issues of the day.
[Never again! Never again!
Never again martial law!]
-It's all right. Senator Marcos, please continue with
your statement.
Go ahead.
Go ahead, please, sir.
What do you want to hear from Sen. Marcos?
REP. LENI ROBREDO
The apology has to be voluntary.
We cannot force him to apologize.
What I want to hear is the recognition
That there were many ills in the past,
Including the hidden wealth that up to now
We have not completely recovered
That was stolen from the Filipino people
SEN. BONGBONG MARCOS
I cannot give what I do not have.
I do not have what you are-- I do not have control.
I do not have any knowledge of any of the things.
Once again, let me repeat,
I cannot give what I do not have.
- How about the ill-gotten wealth, sir?
- Do you have it?
No, no. I don’t have it.
Everything of mine is very clear and uh…
- None of it is ill-gotten? None of your wealth is ill-
gotten, sir?
Of course not.
- Family wealth?
Of course not.
LENI ROBREDO
Senator Marcos is spending a lot of money in this
campaign.
He's been paying off mayors, congressmen, governors.
He's been giving out money left and right.
And you ask yourself, where is that--
where-where is all that money coming from?
Imelda Marcos’ Apartment
Manila
IMELDA
This one is, of course, a Picasso.
Marcos would say,
"Imelda, I know how to earn money properly,
but you know how to spend money properly
because you buy beauty."
This is by Fragonard, and the other one is Michelangelo.
Andy Bautista
Chair of the Presidential Commission on Good
Government (PCGG)
2010-2015
We filed a motion with the Philippine graft court,
called the Sandigan bayan,
and asked for a writ of attachment
on these paintings because they are the subject of
litigation.
There was a team that went to her house in Makati,
and they took photographs of the walls.
You could see that the paintings had been replaced.
[Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.]
Here's another interesting photo.
Here you can see the bust of President Marcos.
And there are two important paintings
on the left and right side, but subsequently when
the raiding team came in, there's the bust,
the medals are still there, but instead of paintings,
you have the photos of Mrs. Marcos
and President Marcos.
So they were removed.
There's the Michelangelo.
The photo of President Marcos instead.
And I was also told that the master's bedroom was
locked
and that the team members were not allowed to go in.
There was a, um… a Monet painting
Water-Lily Pond, 1899
that was recently sold in New York
for $32 million by the social secretary
of Mrs. Marcos,
and that alerted the authorities,
and they immediately conducted an investigation
in respect of these funds.
So together with a colleague, we went over to her
house
and asked her, you know, "Mrs. Marcos, we wanted to
know
whether you are claiming ownership of the painting."
And, uh, she replied to me,
"In case I do say that I own the painting,
will it be given back to me?"
ETTA ROSALES - white
There have been so many cases.
God knows how many cases there have been.
Imelda Marcos has gotten away with murder.
I mean, she-she always gets acquitted.
The stealing of the money by the billions
impacted all the economic development
of the Filipino people and made the people
impoverished.
There's a huge gap between the rich and the poor.
If you're rich and you're in power,
it becomes very easy for you to get the people
to your side, ensuring that they're taken care of
by funds and money that they spread around.
singing in native language (worship song)
FATHER
To the mother of all, our only first lady,
Madame Imelda, with leaders who are one with their
people,
this nation will be strong again.
Philippines will be a great nation again.
*/Imelda gives away money - 100 php
IMELDA
When I became first lady,
it became more demanding for me.
If I'm going to the slum areas,
I have to dress up and make myself more beautiful
because…
The poor always look for a star in the dark of the night.
Resty Ortiz
Shantytown Resident, Manila
Imelda was also good.
Even if she is old, she is still beautiful.
Especially when it comes to dressing up.
It was better during the time of Marcos.
We did not experience hunger then. Now we are so
hard up.
I will vote for Marcos, Bongbong Marcos,
So things will change.
ETTA ROSALES
This continuing poverty nurtured the intolerance
of the people and their belief
that only a strong man could give them security.
Rodrigo Duterte
Presidential Candidate
If I become the president, I will eradicate corruption,
criminality and drugs.
NOYNOY AQUINO
People want instant gratification.
And they see in Mayor Duterte and his promises the
idea that all the problems
Will be solved in a relatively short period of time.
Six weeks before the presidential and vice presidential
election
- Mayor Rodrigo Duterte took the number one spot
in the latest presidential race survey.
Meanwhile Senator Bongbong Marcos Jr.
got the lead in the vice presidential survey, with 26
percent.
NOYNOY AQUINO
Since Ferdinand Marcos, the constitution dictates the
one-term Presidency.
And I tend to agree with that.
But you cannot fix all of our problems in six years.
ETTA ROSALES
The elitist type of democratic rule
that followed after Marcos did not really go down to
the poor people.
What matters now is for them to be informed.
What do you read, what do you hear about martial law?
About President Marcos?
- During Marcos’ time all the people were disciplined.
- I also heared the Philippines became rich.
- I think martial law made the Philippines better.
- During martial law the life of the people became
peaceful.
MAY RODRIGUEZ
Our education system has not been able
to put the lessons of history in the history books.
[speaking indistinctly in native language]
Since the return of the Marcoses,
there's been a trickle of new information
in YouTube, in Google that's a revision
of the interpretation of martial law.
We are sure it's the Marcoses.
IMELDA
Perception is real, and the truth is not.
LENI ROBREDO
But you know, it’s really bad to lie.
In social media, a lot of news is coming out that is not
true.
My worry is the kind of campaigning of the others tries
to fool people.
REMEDIOS TRADIO
I do not believe that anyone will support Bongbong
here.
It’s still in our hearts, those pains his father created.
We can’t accept Bongbong Marcos as our vice
president.
NOYNOY AQUINO
People who forget the mistakes of the past
Are condemned to repeat them.
Have we not learned our lessons?
REMEDIOS TRADIO
This is a piece of wood used on the original crates of the
giraffes from Kenya to Calauit.
We keep it so that we never forget that the animals
came here.
Final Marcos rallies
Before Election Day before the close of our polling places,
BONGBONG MARCOS and we are preparing for the transmission of results of
There are some people who approach me saying they the elections.
can rig the election for me.
I say,”Why do I have to cheat? I have the votes of the Bongbong’s Campaign Headquarters
people.” Vice president Bongbong Marcos!
[BBM! BBM! BBM! BBM!]
I am so lucky that my mother is Imelda Romualdez - For vice president, Marcos is still number one, with
Marcos. thirty-one percent counted.
And when she speaks, I think I don’t need to speak - do you feel quite relieved that there’s been a good
anymore. result?
And I’ve thought, it is the perfect time for my son When I take my oath, I’ll be relieved.
Sandro. - The extremely close vice presidential race
Maybe it’s time to retire? Maybe it’s the right time for is keeping many people on the edge of their seats.
him to take over?
Sandro, are you ready? The day after the election Leni Robredo leads by 223,
[singing in native language - ako ay pilipino] 000 votes.
- Leni Robredo takes the lead on the partial and
Election Day unofficial
May 9th, 2016 count for vice president.
Good morning, good morning. - Bongbong Marcos is firm he will not concede
Good morning, good morning, the vice presidential race to Leni Robredo.
good morning. - are you still optimistic that you will win?
I have won.
Andy Bautista
Chair of the Commission on Elections Eight weeks after election
Former Head of PCGG Okay, we're now going to an ANC live event,
The old job seemed like a walk in the park compared to as Senator Bongbong Marcos is holding a media briefing
this one. after filing an electoral protest before the Supreme
Before, the main task was to try to recover ill-gotten Court.
wealth. [Let's listen in.]
Now it is to preserve our democracy. Against, uh, Leni Robredo, the supposed and
proclaimed
IMELDA vice president, uh, from the last elections,
He was newly appointed to be the chief for the because we have many-- we have been able to gather
elections many evidence-- much evidence, uh, concerning several
in preparation to knock us out again, I suppose. aspects
of the election.
BONGBONG MARCOS
- Are you confident of victory, sir? LENI ROBREDO
Yes, I'm feeling-- I'm feeling that, uh, Right after, um, I realized that I was winning,
by all indications, we should be successful today. I already knew 100 percent
that he will not accept defeat,
IMELDA because this is the nearest that he already got
The Filipino people are grateful people. to being back in power.
And they know where-- what side of the bread He did not want to disappoint his mother or his family.
is buttered and for whom to vote for. Um, this is a shortcut, um, to get back to power
instead of trying again in the next elections.
Stay outside!
- what's the latest?
I can ask for another ballot? - SANDRO Hi, Vivian.
I messed up. You're right, the canvassing of votes
I shaded two presidents for president and vice presidential candidates
is finally over after three days.
Election Headquarters Leni Robredo is the vice presidential front-runner
ANDY BAUTISTA with 14.4 million votes, followed by Bongbong Marcos
It is now approximately one to two hours with 14.1 million votes.

Leni Robredo is announced as the vice president under
the cloud of Bongbong’s electoral protest.
Rodrigo Duterte wins the presidency in a landslide.
Rodrigo Duterte
President of the Philippines
Such an interesting case, Rody Duterte. - karen davila
I have to say, did you see this coming?
- No.
- Okay.
I didn't, uh, see this coming.
It's like Trump. No one saw Trump coming.
[Duterte! Duterte!
Duterte!]
Somebody has to answer for all of these things
that's happening to the country.
Those of you involved in drugs--son of a bitch, I will kill
you.
I will have no patience. I will have no middle ground.
Either you kill me, or I will kill you idiots.
MAY RODRIGUEZ
Activist
I think people voted him to power
because he looked like them; he spoke like them.
Of course, it turns out that he isn't at all from the poor.
His parents are rich and so on,
but he managed to package him-himself
so that he looked like one from the people.
RODRIGO DUTERTE
I was just a simple mayor before I got here.
To tell you the truth, just to illustrate to you how
destiny plays out…
I didn’t have money. It was Imee who donated.
She said she borrowed money for it. Imee supported
me.
Imee Marcos
Imelda’s Daughter
I do not do it because of, uh--
We all know my father was a cabinet member
of President Marcos during the first term of his
presidency.
IMEE MARCOS
So is it not true that you contributed to the campaign of
President Duterte?
The President is such a joker. You know the president is
such an agent provocateur.
BONGBONG MARCOS
I do not know of any deal.
If there's--the close--
We have--we have been supportive of him, um,
from-from the very beginning.
If there was any help and any assistance given
to then-candidate Duterte,
it was in the form of-of political endorsement.
It was a form of political support.
Andy Bautista
Former Chairman of Elections and PCGG
Obviously there is that connection
wherein money that had been looted and hidden
is now being brought back into the Philippines
in order to finance political campaigns.
The PCGG was created solely to pursue the ill-gotten
wealth
of the Marcoses.
And what they want to do now is to give that power
to the solicitor general, who actively campaigned
for Senator Marcos in the 2016 elections.
Cases will probably be dismissed,
and the assets that are under supervision
of the PCGG will probably be returned to the Marcoses.
It is quite ironic that… having gone after
the Marcos' ill-gotten wealth,
which is in the billions of dollars,
I am now being accused of having ill-gotten wealth
in the millions of pesos, and these allegations
are-are baseless, and yet they were being made,
I know, because they wanted
to destroy my credibility
as well as the credibility of the 2016 elections.
ETTA ROSALES
Little did we know that the Marcoses financed,
in a big way, the election of Duterte.
So it was a very convenient alliance,
which is now paving the way for Bongbong Marcos
to get to Malacañang, the sooner, the better.
RODRIGO DUTERTE
What’s the latest on the count for Bongbong?
Is she really the vice president?
LENI ROBREDO
Almost everyone who has the balls
to criticize him in public
get ostracized, get persecuted, and I'm fully aware.
I'm fully aware that my being very vocal
of this administration's policies
will cost me something.
But, you know, if I don't do it, who will?
ANDY BAUTISTA
The fact that President Aquino appointed me
got me into the hit list of people
that they wanted to be removed.
For the well-being of my family,
including myself, I thought that it would be beneficial
for everybody concerned that I first leave the
Philippines.
I went to my brother in Oklahoma.
I am scared to return to the Philippines.
Ever since the new administration has come in,
the Marcoses have been able
to regain a lot of political clout.
They have scrubbed clean the sins of the past,
and they're trying to project themselves
as the leaders for the future.
RODRIGO DUTERTE
The issue of being a hero, that’s politics.
Being the president is the number one qualification
To be buried at the Heroes’ Cemetary.
ETTA ROSALES
"Payback Time for Campaign Contributions."
This is the title of our statement.
We express our gravest concern
that the Marcoses bought and paid for the privilege
of having the dictator's remains
buried on sacred ground.
We simply never thought to see this kind
of flagrant abuse after the people's judgment
of the Marcoses in 1986.
Four months into Duterte presidency
MAY
This president, during his campaign,
he said the funeral parlors should prepare
for more business, and now we have
30,000 people killed.
Deaths under investigation.
RODALYN
WIDOW
It was a raid. He was shot and killed.
DIVINE
VICTIM’S DAUGHTER
I don’t remember. Because if I try to remember, it
hurts. It really hurts.
The children are the real victims here.
MAY RODRIGUEZ
It is happening again, and it reminds us
of what it felt during the time
of the Marcos dictatorship.
We don't know what to do, actually.
You cannot run to the police.
It's the police that's doing it.
Almost no one attends the wakes anymore, because
they are really afraif of being
Identified and killed by the police.
I’m now regretting that I voted for President Duterte.
He is killing the poor people first, the drug users.
It’s really hard for me because of what happened to my
son.
Now, fear is in our hearts.
Fear that we will be killed, just like what happened to
my husband.
Back then, President Marcos killed many people.
But now it is worse. They do it in the open.
They’re killing us like we are animals.
ETTA ROSALES
Since Duterte cannot govern...
democratically, he has to create an enemy
to justify the use of force.
TRUE HERO
Libingan ng mga Bayani
Heroes’ Cemetery
I will allow the buriall of Marcos at the Heroes’
Cemetery. - duterte
BONGBONG
It was my father's fervent wish
that when he came to the end of his days
that he be buried
in a simple soldier's ceremony.
We thank President Rodrigo Duterte
for his recognition of my father's service to the nation.
Let us be the heroes that my father asked us all to be
and finally bring the Filipinos to greatness.
MAY RODRIGUEZ
One day, we will just wake up and find ourselves
having a new vice president, and that is Bongbong
Marcos,
because the conditions, um, are there.
The Supreme Court, which is trying the protest case,
is friendly to Duterte and to the Marcoses
because it's the same Supreme Court
that allowed the burial of the late dictator
at the Heroes' Cemetery.
Duterte has been very vocal
that he would resign as president
if he had Bongbong Marcos for vice president.
Things will move the way President Duterte will want it.
Now, the reason why I cannot tell you that we follow
the constitutional succession is this.
I do not quarrel with women. I do not respond to what
they say.
I think deep in my heart, if you follow the succession,
and Robredo takes over,
She can’t handle it. It will gwt worse.
IMELDA
You need a strong leader.
You need a strong leader.

MAY RODRIGUEZ
The preparation for the return of the Marcos family
to political power started many years
before many were aware of it, and people were just
taking it too easy, not believing
that it was possible.

LENI ROBREDO
You know, it is really inbreeding,
because when dynasties are embedded
in the political landscape already,
it's as if political positions can just be inherited.
There have been a lot of recorded ill effects
of allowing political dynasties to flourish.

IMELDA
I could not only be number one first lady.
I had to be a mother. I had to embrace everybody,
take care of everybody, love everybody.
Ensure that there was a solution to all their problems.
And I was there totally. I was no longer mother
of my family, of the first family,
mother of the people here in the Philippines.
After a while, I was mothering all over the world.
It is more than a fairy tale, because it's really
unbelievable.
I gave birth to what I dreamt of,
and I always got my way.

Now is the important thing, so the past is the past.

There are so many things in the past that we should
forget.
In fact, itss no longer there.

In 2019 Facebook discovered hundreds of fake news

acoounts linked to Duterte and the Marcoses.
With DUterte’s support Imee Marcos won a Senate seat
after her term ended as a governor.
Imee’s son was elected to her governor’s seat,
preserving the Marcoses’ political power in the NOrth.
Bongbong MArcos’ electoral protest awaits a decision
by the Supreme Court.
Under pressure from the President Duterte, the
Supreme Court’s chief justice was removed and
Replaced with a pro-Marcos justice.
In july 2019 police charged Vice President Leni RObredo
and 35 other members of the opposition with
Plotting to oust President Duterte.
If convicted, Orbredo faces up to 12 years in jail.
Some analysts believe the charges against her are
designed to help clear Bongbong’s path to power.