It once counted Ferdinand Marcos, the dictatorial president of the Philippines, as an ally.
He likened their struggle to the Philippines' own People-Power revolution to depose strongman Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
The first wave of Filipinos left in the 1970s to escape stagnation under the then-dictator, Ferdinand Marcos.
Following a whirlwind, 11-day courtship, she marries up-and-coming politician and soon to be president, Ferdinand Marcos (Jose Llana).
But Byrne doesn't ignore the flip side the poverty of the Philippines or Ferdinand Marcos' grab for power.
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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.
In 1986, for example, he defended Westinghouse in what appeared to be a clear-cut case of bribing Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippine dictator.
The country had its own financial and foreign-debt crises in the early 1980s under the regime of the late dictator 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.
Byrne went on to create a two-disc song cycle, with a DVD containing several music videos featuring footage of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos.
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Likewise, in the 1960s when former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was persecuting the Moros of Mindanao, they found shelter and sympathy in neighboring Sabah.
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.
The same charges have been leveled at the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos and practically every other authoritarian leader who has graced the political stage in the past few decades.
He was swept to power in 2010, partly on a wave of affection for his late mother, Corazon Aquino, the first president after the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
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.
He fingered the aides closest to military strongman Ferdinand Marcos.
But Sin and Aquino fear cha-cha opens the door to rolling back democratic protections put in place to ensure no return to the authoritarianism of former president Ferdinand Marcos.
The 1987 constitution, which was drafted just after the overthrow of the 20-year dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, includes checks and balances galore to prevent a return to strongman rule.
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.
The Philippine variant of this kind of politics exhibits some familiar features Benigno Aquino was assassinated, Ferdinand Marcos died in exile but it has yet to develop fully into a multi-generational affair.
The promotion of army men also resurrects a disturbing memory: During nine years of martial law former President Ferdinand Marcos often gave civilian jobs to military chiefs in exchange for loyalty.
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 credibility of the next administration, not so much the democratic process, is the issue facing the Philippines as it holds in May its second presidential election since the fall of Ferdinand Marcos.
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