Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the late dictator, gestures as he greets the crowd during a campaign rally in Quezon City, Philippines, in April 2022. He won the May election.
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s references to a Golden Age in the Philippines invites a nostalgic look at the past. But it also warns of a darker future in keeping with how his father ran the country.
Duterte (left) with the Philippines’ armed forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General Noel Clement.
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While Duterte has slaughtered 20,000 Filipinos, he is incapable of attacking people beyond his own borders, whereas US wars have killed up to 4m in the Middle East alone since 1990.
Excavations at Kalinga in Luzon’s Cagayan Valley (Philippines).
G.D. van den Bergh