Golden Age Flashcards
This place serves as a monument, a museum, and a historical research center honoring the martyrs and heroes under the dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
Bantayog ng mga Bayani
In Marcos’ first ten years in office (based on food intake alone) what percentage of the population were poorly fed?
84.3%
What diseases did the Philippines have the highest rate of during the Marcos period?
Philippines had the highest rates for whooping cough, diphtheria, and rabies. in the Western Pacific Region, it had the highest rates for tuberculosis and polio. About 400 children were dying every day due to diarrhea and communicable diseases.
How much was the estimated worth of the Marcos’ mini hospital in Malacanang?
USD 250,000
International donations from the WHO and Unicef where diverted where?
Imelda’s London account to purchase diamonds, as well as Minister of Health Florentino Solon’s account to purchase several houses around the country and even a beach resort
In this island, 120 poor families were evicted to make room for giraffes, zebras, gazelles, and other animals from Kenya. Bought using government funds and maintained at about $30,000 a month, the island was used as a private hunting ground by Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr.”
the island of Calauit, 275 miles southwest of Manila
Marcos’s classmate and fraternity brother at the UP Law School. When Marcos ran for president, he served as Chairman of Marcos’s party, Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, for Western Visayas, delivering a sizeable number of votes for the future dictator. Later, he was accorded power-of-attorney to deal with corporations on behalf of Marcos. With his help, Marcos opened his first of many Swiss bank accounts, through which he would funnel the nation’s wealth to his personal accounts. In return, Marcos appointed him as chairman of the Philippine National Bank.
Roberto Benedicto
A close business associate of the Marcoses. He benefited by taking control of one of the biggest banana plantations in the world, taking over vast expanses of land while driving away their indigenous inhabitants. With Marcos’s assistance, he initiated a partnership with the Bureau of Prisons to enlist prisoners as laborers in his plantations. With this cheap source of labor, he could continuously expand his interests with little concern about cost.
Antonio Floirendo
A key supporter of Marcos in the years leading up to Martial Law and afterward. In 1972, he was instrumental in the establishment of the dictatorship, acting as a scapegoat for the looming Communist threat. In a staged ambush, he and his convoy were “attacked” by unknown assailants on his way to his Wack Wack subdivision; this became a trigger for the declaration of Martial Law.
Juan Ponce Enrile
A tax that charged coconut farmers with $0.08 per 100 kilos of copra, supposedly to fund the Coconut Investment Company, Cocofed, and the Philippine Coconut Authority. During Martial Law, this went up to $13 per 100 kilos of copra; from 1977 to 1981, it remained at $10, eating up about 33.8% of farmers’ incomes. Meanwhile, coconut farmers at the time could only afford about 10% of what was considered the minimum requirement for food.
Coco levy fund
He was Marcos’s loyal representative in Tarlac, ensuring that Marcos’s votes and interests were secured in Central Luzon.
Danding Cojuangco
