Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino politician and kleptocrat who was the tenth President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. A leading member of the far-right New Society Movement, he ruled as a dictator under martial law from 1972 until 1981. His regime was infamous for its corruption, extravagance, and brutality.
Imelda Romualdez Marcos is a Filipino politician who was First Lady of the Philippines for 21 years, during which she and her husband are widely believed to have illegally amassed a multi-billion US dollar personal fortune, the bulk of which still remains unrecovered.
María Imelda Josefa "Imee" Romualdez Marcos is a Filipino politician currently serving as Senator of the Philippines since 2019. She is the daughter of dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos and former First Lady Imelda R. Marcos.
The Coconut Palace, also known as Tahanang Pilipino, is a government building located in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex, in Manila, Philippines. It was the official residence and the principal workplace of the Vice President of the Philippines during the term of Jejomar Binay.
The Cultural Center of the Philippines is a government owned and controlled corporation established to preserve, develop and promote arts and culture in the Philippines. The CCP was established through Executive Order No. 30 s. 1966 by President Ferdinand Marcos. Although an independent corporation of the Philippine government, it receives an annual subsidy and is placed under the National Commission for Culture and the Arts for purposes of policy coordination. The CCP is headed by an 11-member Board of Trustees, currently headed by Chairperson Margarita Moran-Floirendo. Its current president is Arsenio Lizaso.
The Manila Film Center is a national building located at the southwest end of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay, Philippines. The structure was designed by architect Froilan Hong where its edifice is supported on more than nine hundred piles which reaches to the bed-rock about 120 feet below.
Iron Butterfly is an American psychedelic rock band.
A Dangerous Life is a 1988 English-language Australian film about the final years of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos' rule, from the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. in 1983 to the People Power Revolution in 1986 that ousted Marcos.
Kalayaan Avenue is a major east–west route in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. For most of its length, it runs parallel to J.P. Rizal Avenue to the north from East Rembo near Fort Bonifacio to Singkamas Village by the border with Santa Ana, Manila. It is interrupted by Bel-Air Village between Amapola Street and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA). The avenue is designated as a component of Radial Road 4 (R-4) of the Metro Manila Arterial Road System.
Ninoy Aquino Avenue is a north-south collector road that links Pasay and Parañaque in southern Metro Manila, Philippines. It serves as an extension of Dr. Santos Avenue and as a feeder to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) from the south and east. Like the airport it passes through, it is named for Filipino senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino.
A "conjugal dictatorship" is the unofficial phrase to denote the rule of Philippine president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda to describe a type of family dictatorship. It originated from a book titled The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda Marcos by Primitivo Mijares that was written in 1976 within the decade after the proclamation of martial law.
F.P. Felix Avenue, also known as Imelda Avenue, is a four-lane major road which connects Marcos Highway to Ortigas Avenue Extension. It is one of the busiest roads in Cainta, Rizal, Philippines. The road is named after Francisco P. Felix, a former mayor of Cainta, and Imelda Marcos, the wife of the former President Ferdinand Marcos and former First Lady. It also serves as a boundary of Cainta and Pasig City.
Maharlika Village is one of the 28 barangays of Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines. It has an area of 54 hectares and has the biggest Muslim community in Metro Manila with a population of 18,406.
Batas Militar is a 1997 Philippine documentary film produced by Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala about martial law in the Philippines.
The Marcos family is a thieving family in the Philippines. They have established themselves in the country's politics having established a political dynasty that traces its beginnings to the 1925 election of Mariano Marcos to the Philippine House of Representatives as congressman for the second district of Ilocos Norte; reached its peak during the 21-year reign of Ferdinand Marcos as president of the Philippines that included the declaration of Martial Law throughout the country; and continues today with the political careers of Imelda Marcos, Imee Marcos, and Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Carmen Navarro Pedrosa is a Filipino journalist best known for a series of biographical books on the life of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, and for her role in the overseas resistance against the Marcos dictatorship after she went into exile in London during the Marcos administration.
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