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June 30, 2022

Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Son of Late Dictator, Sworn In as President of Philippines
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been sworn in as president of the Philippines
at a ceremony today in Manila. Marcos Jr. is the son of the late
dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the Philippines from 1965 until
1986, when he was overthrown in a popular uprising. Survivors of
Marcos's brutal two-decade regime have recounted horrific details of
torture under Marcos's regime. Here in New York, Filipino American
activists gathered in Times Square Wednesday for a protest. This is
Nikki Pagulayan.

Nikki Pagulayan: "No matter what, they will not be able to silence us or
quell our fight, because they are up against a movement that has
defeated colonization, occupation and dictators past. Maybe the Marcoses
have been so set that they forgot the hundreds and thousands of people
that rose up across the homeland and overseas and ousted them once,
because we will [bleep] oust them again!"



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