Reinventing Marcos

<p><strong>Marcos died a dictator. But today on social media Marcos is a hero.</strong></p><p>President Ferdinand E. Marcos held power for 21 years and lost power in four days. What happened and why is recounted in this memoir by Keith Dalton a decade-long former foreign correspondent in the Philippines. He writes of a ruthless and repressive dictatorship - responsible for more than 100000 deaths imprisonments torture and 'disappearances'. Through despotism nepotism and corruption Marcos built an empire of greed until he was overthrown in a People Power revolution in 1986.</p><p>Decades after his death Marcos has been 'reinvented' - mythologised and propagandised - by social media disinformation which claims it was a 'golden' age and Marcos was the nation's best-ever president. This false legacy helped Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. win the presidency in 2022. Dalton remembers an autocrat and a 'bloody' age when Marcos politically gutted and economically plundered the nation. Reinventing Marcos is his account of the 10 years he was there. </p>