The Marcos years: Golden age of what?


This file photo taken on Nov 15, 1985 shows the then Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda appearing before some 35,000 college students undergoing a two-year compulsory military training in Manila. — Bloomberg

THERE’S a raging debate on social media between supporters and critics of presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

His supporters believe that the reign of Marcos Jr’s father, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was the Philippines’ golden age of peace and prosperity.

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