MANILA – Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. was 28 years previous when a helicopter whisked his household from the Philippines’ presidential palace as hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded the ouster of his dictator father in a historic “people power” revolution.
Just over 36 years later, the son is celebrating a landslide victory in a presidential election, a rare comeback for a household as soon as finest identified for widespread human rights abuses and the plunder of an estimated $10 billion.
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