It once counted Ferdinand Marcos, the dictatorial president of the Philippines, as an ally.
Following a whirlwind, 11-day courtship, she marries up-and-coming politician and soon to be president, Ferdinand Marcos (Jose Llana).
Professor Jose says the regime of Ferdinand Marcos saw the emigration of workers as a short-term solution to high unemployment.
The last Filipino to excite such adulation was a reluctant politician, Corazon Aquino, whose presidency ended the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
The family of former strongman Ferdinand Marcos, for example, still has not paid its arrears, despite a supposedly final ruling in 1999.
Many Muslim Filipinos sought sanctuary in Sabah in the 1970s and '80s while fighting a separatist war against late dictator Ferdinand Marcos's government.
They are a diverse lot, ranging from Robert Jaworski, a former basketball star, to Francisco Tatad, one-time spokesman for a previous dictator, Ferdinand Marcos.
And family members of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos say they are ready to distance themselves from Estrada in an attempt to remain above the fray.
Vote-rigging by President Ferdinand Marcos led to his downfall in 1986.
The focal point of the controversy is the 1987 Constitution, drawn up after the People Power revolution ousted the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos the previous year.
In 1986, after being airlifted from the presidential palace the previous day, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and an entourage of about 90 fled the country to Guam.
After several years living in South-East Asia, he looks to me like a mixture of Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and Suharto of Indonesia.
Her father, the late Diosdado Macapagal, was an honest and popular president from 1961 to 1965, when he lost to Ferdinand Marcos in what may have been a rigged election.
In 1972, not long after strongman Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Misuari quit his job teaching political science at the University of the Philippines to lead the MNLF into a guerrilla war.
The Philippines' Corazon Aquino started her campaign against Ferdinand Marcos more than 14 years ago in remarkably similar circumstances: the fractious coalition, the ragtag convoys, the concern that contesting elections might be futile.
Some 12 years after the Philippines started tracking down the assets of its late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, it has still recovered only a small part of the fortune he is thought to have stolen.
"In terms of dollars, we think this could be bigger than anything we have ever seen before, " says Stephen Vickers, Asia chief for Kroll Associates, which helped investigate the wealth of the Philippines' former President Ferdinand Marcos.
Cardinal Jaime Sin, the archbishop of Manila and one of the leaders of the 1986 popular revolution that led to the downfall of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, has led a furious attack against efforts to change the constitution.
Also present was former defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who helped drive Imelda and president Ferdinand Marcos into exile in the 1986 People Power uprising and who is now helping her get back some of the family assets.
They are quick to point to successes in the past, such as Corazon Aquino's "People Power" in the Philippines, which ousted the corrupt regime of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, or, more recently, the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine.
The Supreme Court cited at length the successful legal battles fought by the governments of Nigeria and the Philippines with the Swiss authorities in their bids to get back the billions looted by Sani Abacha and Ferdinand Marcos.
The bright lights of the cameras bothered his eyes, and a friend back home mistook his victory picture for one of Corazon Aquino, who was in the news for having just overthrown the Philippine government of Ferdinand Marcos.
"People's power" has again triumphed (in the Philippines it toppled President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, pushed President Joseph Estrada out in 2001 and would have ousted President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2005 had the Vatican not advised its Filipino bishops against involvement).
He refused to debate with Mrs Arroyo, or to describe his policies in any detail, reinforcing the impression that he was simply a surrogate for Mr Estrada and the circle of Ferdinand Marcos, a former dictator, a witness at Mr Poe's wedding.
In his office at the World Bank, there is a photograph from 1986 that shows him in the White House situation room with other senior members of the Reagan Administration, as they discussed whether to abandon Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippine dictator and longtime American ally.
The Marcos family, meanwhile, had returned from exile in 1990s and again wields influence: former first lady Imelda Marcos as a lawmaker, son Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos a senator, daughter Imee a provincial governor.
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