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A member of the Marcos family is returning to power – here’s what it means for democracy in the Philippines

  • Written by Adrian De Leon, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imagePolitics is the Marcos family business.Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

Some 36 years after the People Power Revolution restored democracy to the Philippines, a member of perhaps the most brutaland corrupt political dynasties in the nation’s memory is set to return to the Philippine presidency.

Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the son of...

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