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The Marcos family (UK: / ˈ m ɑːr k ɒ s / MAR-koss, US: /-k oʊ s,-k ɔː s /-kohss, -kawss, [1] [2] Tagalog:) is a political family in the Philippines.They have established themselves in the country's politics, having established a political dynasty [3] [4] that traces its beginnings to the 1925 election of Mariano Marcos to the Philippine House of Representatives as congressman for ...
Estimates of the alleged ill-gotten wealth of the Marcos family vary, [17] [18] with most sources accepting a figure of about US$5 billion–10 billion for wealth acquired in the last years of the Marcos administration, [1] [19] but with rough extreme estimates of wealth acquired since the 1950s going as high as US$30 billion.
A 2005 image of 40 Wall Street, one of four Manhattan buildings purchased by the Marcoses in the early 1980s. The overseas landholdings of the Marcos family, which the Philippine government [1] [2] and the United Nations System's Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative [3] consider part of the $5 billion to $13 billion "ill-gotten wealth" of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, are said to be distributed ...
The president-elect, Bongbong Marcos, and his running mate, Sara Duterte, hail from political dynasties with long histories of abuses of power. What the Marcos family's return means to democracy ...
The term "Marcos mansions" [1] refers to at least 50 upscale residences in the Philippines of the family of 10th President Ferdinand Marcos. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These are aside from the various overseas landholdings of the Marcos family , which are spread around the world.
Imelda Marcos with President Ferdinand Marcos and family during the 1965 inauguration. It was during the 1965 campaign that Imelda became influential as a political figure at the national level, supporting her husband’s political tactics through her charismatic appeal and youth.
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The Kingmaker is a 2019 documentary film written and directed by Lauren Greenfield, featuring the political career of Imelda Marcos [6] with a focus on the Marcos family's efforts to rehabilitate the family's image and to return to political power, [7] [8] including her plans to see her son, Bongbong, become President of the Philippines, [9] [10] and the alliance that Bongbong and Imee Marcos ...