Broader appreciation of the People Power holiday has been waning already, says Arugay, who points out that his research on public perceptions of Marcos Sr.’s martial law and the revolution of 1986 has revealed increasing support for tyrannical military rule and a declining positive view of the democratic uprising. “This is what happens when you bring despots and their scions back to power.” “I don’t think it could be more ironic,” says Aries Arugay, chair of the political science department at the University of the Philippines Diliman. administration will observe such holidays inextricably linked to his father’s ouster-Malacañang (the president’s office) did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story-but any participation would have an uncomfortable shadow cast over it. It remains unclear how, if at all, the Marcos Jr. She still shudders at the sound of steel gates closing, she says. posted on Facebook in 2012 on the 40th anniversary of his father’s declaration of martial law.įor Torres, and many families like hers, that’s next to impossible. Along the way, they’ve steadily refused to apologize for the sins of their family’s past and been accused by historians of denialism and revisionism when discussing the atrocities of Marcos Sr.’s regime.
died of natural causes in 1989, they’ve made inroads in local and eventually national politics, culminating in Marcos Jr.’s election as president last June. Since Marcos Jr., his siblings, and their mother returned to the Philippines after Marcos Sr.
Marcos Jr., nicknamed “Bongbong,” wants his father’s sordid history forgotten. But today, for people like Torres, the suffering wrought by Marcos that prompted a democratic uprising nearly four decades ago is more at risk of being forgotten than ever before.Ī new Marcos is president: the son, namesake, and splitting image of the late dictator.
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