Many leaders of People Power, the movement that ousted Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos two decades ago, are disappointed now. Their idealism has given way to disillusionment as the country has ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has confirmed that he killed three men during his time as mayor of Davao city, despite officials trying to downplay an earlier admission. Duterte's comments might ...

We’ll talk to historian John Schmidt about President Ferdinand Marcos’s fall from power in the Philippines. In 1972, he declared martial law and began rule as a dictator. Marcos would order the ...

Thirty years after the People Power revolution toppled the brutal regime of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, photojournalist Kim Komenich, who won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for his spot news ...

BAGUIO—“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom,” argued Alexis de Tocqueville in his magisterial overview of democratic ...

Only a few Filipinos now remember that evening of Feb. 22, 1986, when Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila called on contemplative nuns to fast and pray until the battle was won, or else "fast until the end ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This research note presents discussions about and by Filipino revolutionaries in the Proceedings of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, ...