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Which country did Ferdinand Marcos rule?

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Which country did the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos rule?

Ferdinand Marcos was the 10th president of the Philippines, ruling as a kleptocrat dictator from 1965 to 1986 when he fled with his family to Hawaii. He and his wife Imelda Marcos currently hold the Guinness World Record for “Greatest Robbery of a Government.”

Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. Photo: SSGT Marvin D. Lynchard, USAF, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Is Ferdinand Marcos running for president of the Philippines in 2021?

Photo: Avito C. Dalan for the Philippine News Agency, Public domain

While Marcos Sr. died in 1989, his son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., was elected governor, congressman, and in 2010, a senator in the Philippines. He is now running in the 2022 presidential race, with the best odds of winning. His sister is a senator and a former governor, and his mother, Imelda Marcos, was elected to Congress for four terms.

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