In 1986, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted from the Philippine presidency in the People Power Revolution. He and his family fled the country and were exiled to Hawaii. 36 years later, his eldest son is elected president in one of the dirtiest elections in our history, with countless reports of broken vote-counting machines, torn ballots, pre-shaded ballots, and election day violence that even resulted in deaths.

To this day, his family continues to deny the human rights violations committed under his father’s martial law, and refuse to return their billions of stolen wealth. They have invested into a decades-long campaign to distort history and restore the reputation of their patriarch’s regime, claiming that under Ferdinand Marcos the Philippines had experienced a “golden era”, and in doing so, they have successfully scammed their way back into Malacañang (the presidential seat of power equivalent to the White House).